Overview
Incidence
Symptoms
serious signs
Evaluation
Treatment
specialist
Home Care
back exercises
pain in adults
pain in children
warning signs
Prevention
exercises
proper lifting
proper posture
Underlying Cause
Anatomy
Aching Back Serious Signs
Symptoms and signs of more serious back pain include:
- Any back pain in a child
- Back pain in an elderly person with any one of the following:
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- History of abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Difficulty urinating
- Fainting
- Fever
- Inability to walk
- Leg numbness (unilateral)
- Numbness in the groin or buttock
- Pain that shoots down the leg
- Red or pink urine
- Severe back pain
- Severe flank pain
- Leg weakness (unilateral)
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Last Updated: May 1, 2008 References
Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD
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