Bad roads are pain in the neck !

 Bad roads and uneven paths will cause back pain and neck pain. After continuous rains in Karachi, traveling on broken roads is causing irreparable damage to people's spines, resulting in a huge increase in back pain and neck pain.

70% of the back pain patients coming to city hospitals are men and women traveling in motorbikes or rickshaws, while car riders are also suffering from various bone and muscle disorders as a result of shocks on the roads. These views were expressed by senior rheumatologists associated with the renowned Pak American Arthritis Center and Al-Ehad Medical Center while addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.

The press conference was addressed by Dow University of Health Sciences Musculoskeletal and Arthritis specialist Dr. Tabib Rasool, well-known rheumatologist Dr. Tahira Parveen and Director of Ayahd Medical Center Ruman Khan. addressed the United States online. Medical experts said that patients who ignore back or spinal cord pain or suffer from the same pain repeatedly are at risk of permanent disability.

As a result of the broken roads, while poor patients are facing additional financial burdens due to treatment and medicines, these people are losing jobs and daily due to long bed rest. Dr. Tabib Rasool said that due to the bad shock absorbers of bikes and rickshaws and the bad condition of the roads, the discs slip as a result of which the seals of the spinal cord are compressed. He said that in the back, where our veins pass, sometimes people have an underlying genetic problem that is not apparent and in the event of a shock or an accident, they become victims of auto-immune diseases. He said that the cases of back pain have increased due to the dilapidated condition of the roads, cracks, and potholes, mechanical back pain is very high due to the roads, in some cases, it is so severe that their daily life is affected. It happens. Dr. Tabib Rasool said that bikers put pressure directly on the vertebrae because of the disc between the spine and the seals where the nerves are damaged. And the seals may be painful, if there is repeated stretching and jerking, the seals may slip out of place, resulting in pelvic pain.

He said that if someone is already a patient of arthritis, such patients lose flexibility in their body and as a result of a sudden shock, their spine may also fracture. He said that patients who ignore back or hip pain or suffer from the same pain repeatedly are at risk of permanent disability. Dr. Tabib Rasool said that the shocks and condition of bikes are not good and autorickshaws also have the same problem due to which elderly people especially women who have osteoporosis suffer multiple fractures due to these shocks. And we have such cases.

Dr. Tahira Parveen said that due to the continuous rains in the city, the condition of the roads has worsened and more potholes and potholes have formed on the roads, due to which the youth and elderly people have increased in mechanical pain. Already in routine, we do not sit properly so our back is not 100% normal. He said that back pain is the second leading cause of visits to physicians and 80 to 90 percent of people suffer from it at least once in their lifetime. Due to the bad condition of the roads, pothole shocks cause injury. Due to the pressure on our nerves and back, these shocks put pressure on our joints which causes Symptoms to appear in the form of severe pain.

Dr. Tahira Parveen said that our roads are so substandard that they get damaged in two years, and a standard policy should be announced. Dr. Saleha Ishaq said that repetitive pain or injury that becomes your permanent disease is called rheumatic injury in many countries of the world, motorcyclists travel repeatedly on these bad roads and they get a rheumatic injury. In the seal injury, the soft material or cushioning bone that slowly starts to wear out is what causes sciatica. You will be constantly cycling on these bad roads, and as a result, you will suffer from multiple diseases. Due to pain, you will not sleep at night, your blood pressure will be high, and many diseases start from one disease.

He said that the government should improve the condition of the roads, as a result of the broken roads, where the poor patients are facing additional financial burdens due to treatment and medicines, and these people are deprived of jobs and daily wages due to long bed rest. are happening Rheumatoid injuries cause pain in the shoulders and back, and arthritis settles in the bones.

He said that we doctors have started online guidance due to this problem, and we have started a free helpline for this. Ruman Khan said that the biggest problem occurs when people do not know who to go to and who will treat the disease after suffering from pain. We have released a toll-free number for anyone is suffering from joint and muscle pain contact this toll-free helpline number 021111113423. Depending on the nature of his pain and illness, this helpline will suggest treatment and provide free guidance.