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Low Back Pain Low back pain is a common and disabling condition which most adults experience at some point in their life. Typically the experience is annoying and painful but the person gets over the ...
Back Pain Diagnosis Back pain is very hard to diagnose beyond what appears to be the obvious: you have a pain in your back which may have resulted from lifting, an accident, sitting in a poor position...
Lower Back Pain Lower back pain or lumbago is one of the commonest and most troublesome musculoskeletal conditions which afflict adults. Most people have a back pain episode at some time in their live...
Information: Back Pain Back pain is very common, neck pain less so. Lower back pain is almost always due to a strain or sprain of the spinal structures such as ligaments, discs, joints or muscles...
Sciatica Treatment Sciatica is severe leg pain which is usually caused by a disc protrusion from one of the lower lumbar intervertebral discs. It is also known as nerve root pain as the anatomical pa...
Sciatica Symptoms Sciatica pain is a severe pain in the buttock and down the leg most commonly related to a disc prolapse. It is a relatively uncommon event with only 5% of back pain sufferers develo...
Sciatica Stretches Sciatica pain is severe pain in the leg due to a disc prolapse, this being very much the most common cause although there are others. Most leg pain is not sciatica pain and anyone ...
Sciatica Pregnancy Sciatica pain is severe buttock and leg pain, often below the knee and in the foot, usually due to a disc prolapse in one of the lower lumbar segments. It can occur in pregnancy an...
Sciatica Emedicine Sciatica pains are the presence of severe leg pain, often of sudden onset, in the buttock and leg which is typically worse below the knee or in the foot. The cause is most commonly...
Sciatica Cure Sciatica pain is severe pain in the leg, often below the knee, secondary to a disc prolapse of one of the lower lumbar discs. There are other sciatica causes and the same process can oc...
Lumbago Lumbago is a term which is not used much nowadays and refers to moderate severe and disabling low back pain, usually of acute or recent onset and often secondary to disc problems in the back....
Shoulder Pain – Trapped Nerve Shoulder pain is a common symptom with the neck and the rotator cuff accounting for the causes of much of the pain problems found in this region. Neck pain can be...
Shoulder Muscle Pain There are a large number of muscles around the shoulder and pain can be felt in any of them, but in most cases will not be coming from the muscles themselves, although trigger po...
Shoulder Pain – Cancer Shoulder pain is common but cancer as a cause of shoulder pain is very uncommon. While lung cancer does not show any symptoms in 25% of patients who are diagnosed, it can...
Cervical Spine – Neck Pain Neck pain is very common and is the second most common complaint after low back pain, varying from a mild ache after heavy work to a severe and disabling pain with he...
The Treatment of Sciatica by Physiotherapists
Sciatica results from a structure impinging on a lumbar nerve root, causing compression and/or inflammation enough to cause neurological changes in the skin, reflexes and muscles served by the affecte...
New NICE Guidelines for Early Management of Non-specific Low Back Pain
Non-specific low back pan which persists for some time is a common presentation for various health care practitioners to deal with, representing a major reason for absence from work due to sickness. R...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic
Chronic back pain is a very important and costly condition in advanced industrial societies which is the chief cause of limitation of physical function in younger people under 45. The definiti...
How Acute Back Pain Becomes Chronic " Part Two "
The vertebral bodies are separated by the discs which consist of two main structures: the inner more flexible nucleus pulposus and the outer, tougher annulus fibrosis. The annulus is in layers with so...
Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy after Discectomy
Nerve root pain in the leg, often known as sciatica, occurs in around five per cent of sufferers from low back pain, and is secondary to degenerative changes which occur in the disc, of which the disc...
