Back pain has multiple causes:
Simple causes of back pain – Lumbar spine spondylogenic / Metabolic / Mechanical/ Muscular / Postural / visceral / Reffered.
- Often related to life style, posture, lack of exercise, Vit. Deficiency, increasing weight and stress.
- Do not have associated nerve compression
- RED FLAG signs absent usually
- Investigations often not needed unless pain persists >3 weeks
Pain is typically localised, fatigue related, better with rest, and exercises help a lot, need life style modification. Pain management with simple measures – exercise, medicines and heat therapy, supervised physiotherapy help.
Meet spine specialist for supervised care.
Usually improve without any active / aggressive intervention
Contact specialist if pain persists or progresses.
Disease related back pain
- Tuberculosis / Infection / Trauma / Instability / Tumor / inflammation / Nerve compression related causes.
- Symptoms often more with activity / affect mobility / increase with walking
- Symptoms often present at rest / night pain
- Radiation to leg with nerve paresthesiae present if nerve compression is present. – Pain , Numbness , Heaviness weakness in leg – buttock and back of thigh and calf
- RED flag signs noted. – Fever, Rest pain, Night pain, persistent pain, weakness leg, bowel bladder symptoms
May need investigations to detail to rule out exact cause, unsupervised pain management – self medication / self guided physiotherapy – not recommended and may not help.
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