Back problems in children and adults in terms of psychosomatics

Back pain in adults and children can be very different - muscular and neurological, pain in the spine. Quite often, this type of pain occurs for psychosomatic reasons. It is them who study science, which is at the junction of medicine and psychology - psychosomatics. In the case of psychosomatic back pain, traditional treatment will not bring significant relief, and medical examinations will not give a clear picture of why the pain appears.

In this article we will tell you what psychological and psychiatric causes can cause back pain and what to do.

If you evaluate a person entirely, in close connection of his body and state of mind, then each part of the body will be assigned its own “mission”. So, doctors have long noticed that headaches are mainly affected by very tense people, and diseases of the digestive organs are peculiar to touchy and "bilious" people. All this made it possible at first to make basic ideas about psychosomatics.

From the point of view of psychosomatics, the back is a part of the body that a person never sees, but reacts painfully to any manifestations of unpleasant sensations in it. The back is assigned the “role” of the repository of everything that a person has experienced, of everything that is currently irrelevant, but not yet forgotten. Such a “load” can be very heavy.and if a person is used to wearing a train of offenses and grievances for a long time, then the emotional load on his back sometimes falls unbearable.

The role of the "backpack" is assigned mainly to the muscular system of the back. Spine - more personifies support in lifeHe keeps the whole body, gives the opportunity to walk, sit, move. The spinal column makes a person strong. Pay attention - an infant baby, incapable of vertical support due to the unavailability of his spine, is completely helpless. The same becomes an adult, if for some reason his spine ceases to perform its functions.

We rarely think about back health. In childhood, parents require children to sit straight, doing their homework, doing restorative exercises, and also try to dress the child in the winter so that the back and neck do not blow. On this, in fact, everything ends. And few people wonder why a sports child who is warmly dressed, his back starts to hurt and scoliosis comes to light, why an adult who has never complained on his back suddenly starts shooting in the back.

Psychosomatic medicine describes a psychological portrait of a patient with back pain in many ways.These are not only insecure people with low self-esteem, but also those who are too self-confident, who assume so much responsibility and responsibility as they simply cannot withstand, and pains begin precisely when the burden taken voluntarily begins, but the burning shame (also a destructive feeling) does not allow one to lose it. The shame is getting stronger, the burden is getting heavier, the pains are becoming more and more unbearable.

And what about the children, you ask, because they do not charge themselves with any responsibility?

All this falls on the shoulders of a child who is very afraid of losing the location and approval of those closest to him. At the same time, two fears are formed - the fear of losing love and the fear of one's own powerlessness. In addition, the child begins to create the wrong installation for the future - at a subconscious level. he learns for life that in order to be loved, you need to meet someone's expectations. So children slouch develops.. Because of the burden of responsibility, guilt, and self-doubt, adults also begin to slouch, but unlike children, this does not cause such large-scale changes in the spine and muscular system of the back.

Thus, it becomes clear that any back problem has its own explanation, even a spinal fracture. On the one hand - trauma, accident, accident, on the other - regularity, because it was preceded by certain events, deeds, emotions. When muscular and mental tension in the back reaches a peak, the very moment comes when the spine does not stand up.

Diseases of the back and the prerequisites for them always, with rare exceptions, originate in childhood. It is there that you need to look for a source of trouble.

Gradually, some muscle groups are pathologically strained, clamps appear, blocks in the back, others are excessively relaxed, weakness arises. As a result, the spine is bent, there may be other problems.

By itself, pain occurs when the body can no longer compensate for the effect. So he says it's time to change something..

The appearance of pain in the thoracic spine may indicate that the person is gnawed by an inescapable feeling of guilt in front of a loved one. person or group of people. And also this type of pain is peculiar to adults and children, who are very suspicious, suspicious of others, always waiting for a “backstab”.

Pain in the neck, in the upper part of the back more characteristic of insecure people.who are not only afraid of tomorrow's day, but are also afraid to look at yesterday's day, to turn their heads back. Often the pain in the cervical spine is associated with incredible stubbornness.

In the area of ​​the shoulder blades, negative emotions associated with personal feelings and uncertainty hurt. and a fall in self-esteem due to unshared feelings, resentment for the fact that they gave little love. So, idiopathic pain under the scapula, which has no reasons, from the point of view of physicians, is often attributed to “cold”, “blew out”.And no one guesses to clarify that this is the eldest child in the family, who has been going through the last year because of the fact that the youngest child was born, and his share of love and attention was reduced.

Different researchers have different tables that contain the main causes of certain diagnoses. You can use them, but you should definitely consider your own situation separately, in the context of your problems. If you are looking for the cause of a childhood disease, then both adults and children need to analyze the problems, because often children's back diseases are a direct indication of mistakes in the lives of parents.

Pressure on a person (most often a child), increased requirements of parents, a burden of blame for the fact that the child feels that he does not meet the parent requirements. If the spine with scoliosis is shifted to the right, then the child feels the pressure from the father or male relatives. If to the left, then these are problems on the part of the mother.

Please note that children who grow up in single-parent families are more likely to have left curvature.

Spinal hernia - a cluster of strong negative emotions associated with issues of support and support in relations with relatives. This is not just discontent, but an internal protest that breaks out, but cannot come out., for reasons of culture, education, social norms.

Thus, a woman who has been caring for elderly parents for many years cannot reduce this burden; her conscience does not allow her. But the incredible irritation and resentment is caused by the fact that these duties prevent her from moving to another city, changing her job and marrying a loved one. After several years of such internal protest, which she does not have the right (she so decided) to express, spinal hernias appear - very painful and significantly limiting her physical abilities in the same way that she limited her emotions.

Neoplasms inside the vertebral bodies and in the intervertebral space can be the result of offenses accumulated and not released with the world.

The acute pain associated with the inflammatory process in the muscles (neck, obliques) may be associated with the fear of being left without support, support, the fear that your hidden secrets and secrets from the past may become public knowledge.

To get rid of back pain will help the correct approach to therapy. In no case can not refuse the traditional treatment, which offers a doctor. It would be very unreasonable to refer to psychosomatic reasons and, on their basis, to refuse medical procedures, medications, surgery, if it is required. Psychosomatic medicine is auxiliary, that is, the second after the traditional. It complements the diagnostic picture.

The information that you get after finding out the psychosomatic causes of back problems should be beneficial - undergoing treatment, a person will be able to simultaneously conduct a psychological correction of his condition - to get rid of old offenses, to rethink a grievance against a relative who refused to help, sort out children's grievances.

It has been proven that successful psycho-correction helps speed recovery and significantly reduces the likelihood of relapse. Neglecting the psychological root cause may aggravate the patient’s condition, when medications will cease to bring relief, and doctors will only plant with their hands and talk about the chronic process.