| Children suffer from many diseases and disorders | | | | remains the last option. The problem with this |
| in their childhood days, but chronic back pain is a | | | | disorder is that, in children it does not come up |
| rare disorder that is found in them. The general | | | | with any symptoms. Therefore sometimes it |
| cause of a child's back pain is an injury or sitting | | | | becomes difficult to find out if the child is suffering |
| and standing in bad postures. But if there occurred | | | | from this disorder. |
| no injury and still your child is suffering from a | | | | Herniation of the disk: Herniated disk is a rare |
| consistent back pain, do you know what to do? | | | | cause of back pain in children. If it occurs, it |
| Well, your child needs an immediate medical | | | | causes weakness and numbness in the child's |
| attention. | | | | body. The only treatment to this type of back |
| Back pain in children not just come with a | | | | pain is bed rest and surgery in rarest-of-rare |
| constant and harrowing pain, but is also | | | | cases. |
| accompanied with many other symptoms like high | | | | Pott's Disease: This disease occurs due to TB of |
| fever, loss of weight, behavioral changes, | | | | spine in children. The disorder can be cured with |
| weakness, sleeplessness and nausea. You need to | | | | the administration of antibiotics like, third |
| keep a constant tap on any of these symptoms | | | | generation cephlaosporins and ceftriaxone. |
| and report immediately to a nearby doctor if the | | | | Diskitis: This disorder occurs due to infections in |
| conditions do not improve. | | | | the disk. Infection leads to high fever, back pain, |
| The only way to get to the root of your child's | | | | muscle spasms coupled with behavioral irritability. |
| back pain is with a proper medical attention. You | | | | If not taken care of the disorder at the early |
| should get a spine X-ray test done and find out | | | | stages, there can occur acute complications in the |
| the accurate cause of the suffering. Right | | | | later years of life. Treatment of this disorder |
| diagnosis will only lead to a right treatment. The | | | | includes bed rest coupled with a supervised |
| other tests that may help you find the reasons of | | | | course of antibiotics. |
| back pain are MRI, a bone scan, CT scan, blood | | | | Pyelonephritis: If you were thinking that back pain |
| tests and ESR. | | | | could only occur due to some dysfunctionality in |
| Your child can suffer due to back pain due to the | | | | the spine, you were wrong. There also occurs a |
| following reasons: | | | | kidney infection that is a cause of back pain. In |
| Bad Postures: Children have a habit to sit in bad | | | | Pyelonephritis, children suffer due to a sharp pain |
| postures while studying, reading, eating and | | | | that is usually on one side of the back. The pain is |
| watching TV. It is the biggest cause of back pain | | | | accompanied with high fever and nauseatic |
| in children. You need to take a regular notice of | | | | feelings. The child may also feel pain or a burning |
| that and correct your child whenever he follows a | | | | sensation while urinating. |
| bad posture. | | | | Scheurman's kyphosis: This disorder is common in |
| Injuries: Injuries remain the most common cause | | | | adolescents, especially males. The upper back |
| of back pain in children. A minor fall can cause a | | | | takes a round shape, thus bending the whole |
| muscle pull or even strain a ligament. If not taken | | | | spine. There are two forms of this disease. One is |
| seriously, the problem can aggravate. Pain due an | | | | flexible kyphosis and the other is non-flexible |
| injury can be treated with anti-inflammatory | | | | kyphosis. The treatment requires bracing up of |
| medicines, effectively. Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal | | | | the back. |
| anti-inflammatory drug that is commonly used. But | | | | Spondylolisthesis: Children who suffer from |
| these medicines should be under the medical | | | | spondylolysis have a slip of their 5th vertebra. |
| supervision of a good doctor only. | | | | The sacrum also dislocates. The severe cases of |
| Spondylolysis: Over five per cent of children | | | | this disorder can only be corrected with a surgery. |
| suffer due to back pain that falls in this category | | | | Besides these, there are other causes of back |
| of spondylolysis. In this disease there occurs a | | | | pain in children. They are tumors or neoplasms, |
| fracture in the lower vertebra of the spinal cord. | | | | malnutrition, suffering due to trauma, muscle |
| If not taken care of properly, the pain may | | | | weakness, arthritis and some of the other |
| aggravate. In such situations, surgery and bracing | | | | infections. But theses reasons are generally rare. |