The change of season and the arrival of autumn increase lumbar pain in more than 80 per cent among the adult population.

– on a scale of 1 to 10, patients undergoing treatment reduced by more than 8 his back pain

– according to the Directorate General for researchn and innovation of the European Commission, low-back pain is the second leading cause of low labour and responsible for the loss of 700,000 working hours in Europe a year

Málaga, 2011-October Hospital Chiron Málaga wide trauma service and launches a column unit which will be offered a comprehensive treatment and customized to patients with pathology of intervertebral disc, lumbar or cervical pain, discoartrosis, facetary syndrome and degenerative pathology of the spinal column thereby ensuring the quality of assistance in this field and the autonomy of patients. This unit will be led by Dr. Victor urban, Member in addition to the team of Traumatology of the hospital.

The unit, according to explain medical specialists of the Centre Hospitalier, gets underway coinciding with the change of season and the arrival of autumn, moment in which increases in more than 80 per cent the number of patients affected by back pain.

In this sense, the specialist said that with lower temperatures, atmospheric pressure variation note much more in the interior of the joints, including the joint facetaría where there is a vacuum and that makes the bones are kept together causing a suction effect which aggravates the inflammation in the area and that explains that this pain increases ”. Similarly, Dr. urban, who emphasizes that although be exacerbated this back pain does not alteration that causes it, also attributed this increase in complaints of back to the increase of the stress it causes among adults return to everyday life and work.

The hospital, which is already pioneered the incorporation of services pointers in the province of Málaga, and the realization of labor in water or the launching of aesthetic services, among which emphasizes capillary medicine, incorporates this unit in order to reduce the number of surgeries of column currently carried out within the sector: health care and that, sometimes they become unnecessary.

According to the specialist, this new unit will avoid surgery 8 of every 10 patients affected by this disease at the same time that will ease the discomfort of those patients that surgery has not ended being him effective ”. According to medical specialists, our patients satisfaction is reflected in the evolution of the pain and, in this regard, at the end of the treatment the same reduction comes even to exceed 80 per cent between 6 and 12 months after the completion of the treatment ”.

Therapy, without surgery or hospital admission, therefore consist of combining the technical therapist vertebral axial decompression and infiltrations locoregional with potent anti-inflammatory action delayed in the injured area. In the case of the vertebral axial decompression technique will break the circle of pain from the injury and return to the body self-regulatory capacity through sessions that will increase according to the severity of the problem; on infiltration locoregional Centre will offer an analgesic effect on the painful area may reach perishable or final results in the improvement of the processes affecting the locomotor apparatus. This technique without side effects just stops also functional impairment that involves extended immobilization of the affected area.

For Dr. Victor urban, the launch of this unit is also a clear sense and is that the largest number of medical consultations of Traumatology in our Center are related back problems: sciatica and lumbago, disc herniation, vertebral fractures by osteoporosis or traumascoliosis and spinal deformities, lumbar arthritis, back pain, or stenosis of channel, among others.

Low-back pain, according to the Directorate General for research and innovation of the European Commission affects 67 million people in Europe, of which 5 million are Spanish. Similarly, it is estimated that 75% of the population suffers back pain at some point in his life; exceeds 90% before 3 months but in 5-10% that pain is cronifica. Finally, low-back pain is the second leading cause of low labour and responsible for the annual loss of 700,000 working hours in Europe.

About Hospital Chiron Malaga

Malaga Quirón hospital has 24,360 square meters dedicated to healthcare and an equipment of cutting edge, more than 150 physicians and Surgeons of the highest level and 35 medical specialties available to the patient. The hospital has 136 beds for hospitalization of which 25 are suites and 250 parking spaces. It also has all the services of a general hospital with 51 outpatient, hospital surgical day, adult, gynaecological and paediatric emergency, bath for natural births, neonatal ICU to the assistance of deliveries less than 32 weeks. The hospital is the only private hospital in the province specialized in reconstructive microsurgery and corrective cosmetic surgery, which provides the possibility to correct all those errors of an aesthetic operation in another centre.

Hospitable Group on Chiron

Currently, group hospital Chiron has seven general hospitals in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, San Sebastián, Valencia, Vizcaya and Zaragoza, as well as a hospital day in Zaragoza and a monographic assisted in Bilbao reproduction centre.

Chiron is the first hospital group in healthcare area of new construction in Spain, with a total of 207. 000 m km². All its centers are equipped with the most advanced equipment in diagnosis, treatment, and telemedicine and, in total, there are 2,200 employees, manages 917 hospital beds, 104 ICUs, 103 operating theatres and 537 clinics.

Group Hospital Chiron has agreements with most medical insurers nationwide and in 2010 treated in its hospitals 254.445 er, 87.715 income, 66.988 interventions, 6.410 births and 763.374 consultations.