The Treatment of Lower Right Back Pain

Lower right back pain, though it may not be as serious as the lower right abdominal pain since it is the symptoms of serious disorders, still have to treat rightly. It is true that in some cases of lower right back pain caused by muscular injuries, all you have to do is just applying the ice to the painful area and heat it right after that. Yet, in more serious cases, you may have to have the further examination and treatment by the doctor. You may have known that the common causes of lower right back pain are muscular injury, too much pressure in the root of the nerve and compression fracture. However, there are some uncommon causes of this pain.

The uncommon causes of lower right back pain

The uncommon causes of lower right back pain include spinal conditions, like arthritis and the various form of it; ankylosing spondylitis. The other is bacterial infection. Bacteria, due to its micro size, can be carried anywhere in your body, included the spinal cord. When the bacteria affects the spinal cord, which is when you have the lower right back pain. It is because the bone is infected. Unfortunately, the infection may come from 4 probabilities; the other infection in your body, drug usage, injury and surgical treatments. The other uncommon serious cause is spinal tumor. Lower right back pain in women and lower right back pain in men may have the same uncommon causes aforementioned.

 

The treatments for uncommon lower right back pain

Lower Right Back Pain

First thing first, the doctors have to do some tests to you in order to check the cause of lower right back pain. The tests includes check the nerve function and responds, the motion and touch the body to exactly feel in which area you feel the lower right back pain. If the causes are not that serious according to your doctor, then maybe you just have to need the rest for about 24 to 72 hours. Sometimes, aspirin and the other anti-inflammatory medications are prescribed too. You should know that bed rest is not helpful to cure lower right back pain. In fact, it can worsen the pain. On the contrary, you will have to do your simple daily activities including walking to help reducing the lower right back pain. It means that you should have to move instead of lying passively in your bed.

Lower Right Back Pain Therapy

The other treatments may include physical therapy. It is proven helpful to cure the lower right back pain. The physical therapy includes ultrasound, massage, heat controlled application, warm whirlpool bath and the exercise programs to regain the function of the back and make it used to the movements, so that there will be no lower right back pain anymore. However, if the lower right back pain is caused by the spinal conditions, or even worse, spinal tumor, then the surgical treatment is needed to repair the broken part of your spine. If everything has been repaired, there will be no more lower right back pain.