Back Pain
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serious signs
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Back Pain Symptoms: 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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Related Topics:
Acute back strain or sprain
Back injury
Back pain after lifting
Back pain with radiculopathy
Back sprain
Back strain
Chronic back pain
Chronic back strain or sprain
Coccyx pain
Herniated disk
Sciatica
Vertebral compression fracture
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Back pain
Back pain after injury
Back pain after lifting
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Last Updated: May 1, 2008
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Back Pain References:
Andersson GB: Epidemiological features of chronic low-back pain. Lancet 1999 Aug 14; 354(9178): 581-5.
Coste J, Delecoeuillerie G, et al: Clinical course and prognostic factors in acute low back pain: an inception cohort study in primary care practice. BMJ 1994 Feb 26; 308(6928): 577-80.
Hayden J, Tulder M, Malmivaara A, Koes B. Exercise therapy for treatment of non-specific low back pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005 Jul 20;(3):CD000335.
King HA. Back pain in children. Orthop Clin North Am. 1999 Jul;30(3):467-74, ix.
Marriott A, Newman NM, et al: Improving the evaluation of benign low back pain. Spine 1999 May 15; 24(10): 952-60.
van Tulder MW, Koes BW, Bouter LM: Conservative treatment of acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of the most common interventions. Spine 1997 Sep 15; 22(18): 2128-56.
