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Suggest Treatment For Burning Pain In The Upper Back Area
Question: I am having a burning pain in my right upper back
I have been to the chiropractor several times
I have been to the chiropractor several times
Brief Answer:
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Detailed Answer:
Several features of pain can be helpful in clarifying what is going on and the next steps for diagnosis and treatment.
Type of pain. Burning mostly means a nerve is having problems. This can be either a sick nerve or a nerve that has had an injury. Electrical, shooting would be others implying nerve source for pain.
Location of pain. There is a lot to this. First, if something goes in the pathway of a nerve, then that is the nerve involved. Nerves are long and the pain is in a belt-like long pathway. Smaller areas are smaller nerves. This also tends to say what might be going on. Obviously if there was an injury to the area and then there was pain outward from it "hit a nerve" would be a possibility. Sick nerves are MULTIPLE areas and tends to be the TIPS of the nerve not the whole nerve
What hurts. Moving a particular way that triggers the pain tells what is hurting. Specifically it can distinguish outward structures like skin, muscles, tendons, joints from deep structures like organs and nerves.
`` Having a diagnosis leads to choice of medicine for the pain. Inflamed outer structures respond to treating inflammation. Inner structures need diagnostic tests because something internal is broken. MRI's.
And, structures that cannot be fixed need adaptations. Physical therapy, pillows, supportive structures internal and external.
Furthermore, some groups have specific issues with specific pains. In post-menopausal women, pain anywhere in the back can be associated with thin bones which is a very treatable condition.
Imaging the area of the pain and also perhaps other studies connected to thin bones would be one thing that might be helfpful in elderly women with back pain.
Not entirely sure of the question.
Detailed Answer:
Several features of pain can be helpful in clarifying what is going on and the next steps for diagnosis and treatment.
Type of pain. Burning mostly means a nerve is having problems. This can be either a sick nerve or a nerve that has had an injury. Electrical, shooting would be others implying nerve source for pain.
Location of pain. There is a lot to this. First, if something goes in the pathway of a nerve, then that is the nerve involved. Nerves are long and the pain is in a belt-like long pathway. Smaller areas are smaller nerves. This also tends to say what might be going on. Obviously if there was an injury to the area and then there was pain outward from it "hit a nerve" would be a possibility. Sick nerves are MULTIPLE areas and tends to be the TIPS of the nerve not the whole nerve
What hurts. Moving a particular way that triggers the pain tells what is hurting. Specifically it can distinguish outward structures like skin, muscles, tendons, joints from deep structures like organs and nerves.
`` Having a diagnosis leads to choice of medicine for the pain. Inflamed outer structures respond to treating inflammation. Inner structures need diagnostic tests because something internal is broken. MRI's.
And, structures that cannot be fixed need adaptations. Physical therapy, pillows, supportive structures internal and external.
Furthermore, some groups have specific issues with specific pains. In post-menopausal women, pain anywhere in the back can be associated with thin bones which is a very treatable condition.
Imaging the area of the pain and also perhaps other studies connected to thin bones would be one thing that might be helfpful in elderly women with back pain.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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