Back pain in younger and older children

Muscular Back Pain Most children experience severe back pain due to muscular injuries. Poor conditioning of muscles on the back, muscles overuse injury, muscle and ligament strains, and similar injuries often make a child experience back pain. The orthopedic identify muscular back pain through specific image study. The child can combat muscular back pain simply by taking adequate rest and changing his physical activities.

Spinal Stress Fractures

Often the stress fractures occurring in the spine make children experience severe back pain. But the children often failed to identify the injury in the early stages. Also, a child may suffer from various types of stress fractures.

Specific stress fracture like spondylolisthesis can occur on both sides of the span and make the spinal column unstable. Often orthopedic treat spinal stress fractures through nonsurgical treatment. However, they have to perform surgery if the child back pain persists despite continuing nonsurgical treatment.

Disc Herniation of Spine Disc herniation of spine is one of the serious causes of child back pain. It moves the disc material from its normal space and pushes the disc material against spinal cord and nerves. Hence, a child experiences back pain, along with bending and straightening his spine with difficulty. Often orthopedic perform surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and nerves. But some physicians try to treat disc herniation without surgery if the child does not experience severe and consistent back pain.

Spinal Infection Some children experience back pain consistently due to infection of spinal discs or bone. The spinal infections can occur in both toddlers and adolescents. The orthopedic has to perform specific image tests to diagnose spinal infection and identify the exact location of the infection.

They also treat the spinal infection initially with antibiotics. But the orthopedic have to perform surgery if the prescribed antibiotics fail to control the infection or the spinal structure is damaged due to the infection.

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