It Could Go Senile Brain Because of Low Back Pain Often

Montreal, Still feel strong enough to withstand the pain, you should not ever underestimate the back pain. If untreated, the joints of the spine disorders can affect cognitive function of the brain that become more senile.

According to research experts from McGill University in Montreal, back pain causes the depletion of the brain called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This section serves to receive and interpret pain stimuli transmitted by the nervous system to the brain.

Depletion of the piece is known to cause disturbances in other parts of the brain. The impact among others makes someone hard to maintain concentration, difficulty making decisions and not lose some cognitive function and logic.

Fortunately, these impacts are permanent and will not recover when the back pain has been resolved for example through the operation. Part dorsolateral prefrontal cortex would return to thicken, while cognitive function will return as the initial conditions.

"Thickening in some parts of the brain after back pain resolved very surprising. Any patient who would have the effect of decreasing the pain of this kind," said the researcher, Laura S. Stone, PhD, as quoted by WebMD, Thursday (19/05/2011).

Laura proves it after observing 18 patients who had experienced back pain at least in the last year. When examined, these patients are planning a healing therapy, among others, through surgery and injections.

Before therapy, patients were asked to undergo a brain scan technology with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Scanning done again a year after successful treatment, then compared with brain scans on 16 healthy patients without a history of back pain