Causes
Etiology of upper back pain
Upper back pain is a common disease.The collective function of endogenous and exogenous factors act on upper back,the surrounding nerves and blood vessel,resulting in pathological changes,and present a series of symptoms and signs.At present,upper back pain catch more and more attention in medicine field home and abroad.Lots of medicine works pratised for thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine,which includes the theory and treating experience related with the clinical demonstrations of upper back pain.By lots of practice and careful observation,traditional Chinese doctors recorded in detail the symptoms and treating methods of all kinds of pathological changes,similar to present upper back pain.Traditional Chinese medicine treatise has not been found up till now,but the symptoms,such as neck pain,shoulder pain,arm pain displayed in upper back pain are contained in the bi syndrome.These symptoms are mainly caused by trauma,deficiency of blood and qi,and the invasion of wind-cold-dampness,while the symptoms of dizziness,giddiness,and tinnitus,etc. are often related with liver wind,asthenic disease.
The etiology of upper back pain can be concluded as follows:
1. trauma:upper back pain led by trauma refers to the damage of soft tissues,such as meridians,anadesma,muscles,etc. and dislocation of joints,because of sudden strain or contusion of a muscle. As people is a whole,the damage on neck and shoulder caused by trauma can lead to the disorder of blood and qi of zhang-fu organs and meridians which demonstrated a series of symptoms.Clinically it manifests as the pain in shoulders,back,and limbs,etc,and the pain symptom prevails at this time.In addition,the zang-fu organs of people depends on the nourishment from blood and qi.If the movement of blood and qi is blocked,zang-fu organs will be lack of the nourishment of blood and qi and their functions will be affected,too.Vice versa,the function of liver,spleen,and kidney will affect the function of tendons,bones and joints.At this time,the symptoms of disease will not only be the pain symptoms after trauma,but also will display various asthenia syndrome.Therefore,you should pay attention to the function of viscera,especially the factors of damaging liver,speen and kidney.
2. invasion of wind-cold-dampness,and obstruction of meridians:the wind-cold-dampness invade body and block the movement of blood and qi when passing through meridians,and induce some symptoms such as,pain and ache in limbs and joints,difficulty in extension and flexion,etc.Traditional Chinese medicine concluded all the symptoms led by wind-cold-dampness,which include modern upper back pain symptoms.If one of the wind-cold-dampness evils preponderate,the corresponding symptoms will stick out.For example,if cold evil prevail,it usually is arthritis and demonstrate as pain in limbs and joints;the symptoms will relieve meeting heat,and aggravate meeting cold,also,the joints have difficulty extending.Therefore,the treatment should focus on eliminating cold to stop pain.
3. deficiency of kidney and liver,insufficiency of blood and qi:If you suffer from disease for too long time,your liver-blood will be deficient,kidney-essence will be damaged,and meridians will lose nourishment.These will make the fascia of limbs become slack,hands and feet lack of strength and flexibility.Apart from unfavorable limbs symptoms,deficiency f liver and kidney,and insufficiency of blood and qi can induce tinnitus and giddiness.In addition,deficiency of kidney can not nourish liver,even cause deficiency of liver-yin,hyperactivity of liver-yang,which also can result in giddiness.Upper back pain caused by deficiency of liver and kidney,and insufficiency of blood and qi includes vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis,cervicalspondylotic radiculopathy and cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
4. obstruction of phlegm and blockage of meridians:phlegm is the product of pathological changes of body and agglomerate by body fluid.Either the maladjustment of the function of liver,kidney and spleen,or the invasion of wind-cold-dampnees evils or other factors will affct the normal circulation of body fluid,which will accumulate in certain position of our body.This will cause the blockage of blood and qi,and meridians,which will induce other new dysfunctions.The symptoms caused the blockage of phlegm are plentiful,and vary in different location of body.Upward perversion of phlegm to head will induce dizziness and blockage at limbs often lead to numbness and pain.Clinicallly,wind-phlegm often cause vomiting,dizziness,sudden fall down,numbness of limbs,and the cold-phlegm often cause heumatism and stinging pain,inability to raise limbs,and cold limbs,etc.These symptoms contain lots of symptoms demonstrated in vertebral artery type of cervical spondylosis and sympathetic cervical spondylosis.
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