The term lumbociatalgia is used to refer to low-back pain that radiates to one or both legs, is a manifestation of the lumbar spine injuries. This pain is characterized by a mechanical pattern, that is worse with movements and efforts easing with the rest and immobility, accompanied by disorders of sensation called paresthesia, which is have as stinging, tingling, corrientazos, or burning sensations in the painful area.
Difference between lumbociatalgia and sciatica
Sciatica is a pain that originates in the column and radiates to the leg with a well-defined path, begins in the lower back, passes through the center of the butt down the back thigh and arriving at the knee moves outward then running along the outside of the leg to the ankle There are usually painful manifestations at the toes. This well-defined path corresponds to the distribution of the sciatic nerve, there pain with this pattern is called sciatica. The lumbociatalgia corresponds to the pain that radiates to the leg by any lumbar root involvement, so its distribution is not as accurate, varying from agreement as the root that is affected. In this way can be located only at the level of the thigh, in other cases reaches the knee or even may comprise all the leg with involvement in various areas. A very common form of lumbociatalgia is the involvement of the L4-L5 root pain, this nerve provides sensation to the knee, by what your injury causes pain in the front of the thigh and knee. Sometimes this pain is erroneously confused with injuries of the knee joint.
Causes of lumbociatalgia
The main cause of this disorder is bad postures, efforts can lead to injury and contracture of the muscles as well as prolapse of intervertebral discs out of its normal location which causes compression of the nerve root causing pain. Other causes of lumbociatalgia include movements between vertebrae known as listesis, fractures due to osteoporosis, in which the vertebral bodies collapse crushing is and osteoarthritis of the spine or spondylosis. In these three conditions changes the architecture of the vertebrae narrowing holes through which emerge at the level of the lumbar nerves, which leads to the development of pain.