Causes of Lower Back Pain (Click to Expand)
- Bulging Or herniated (slipped disc)
- Sciatica - Pain in legs due to pinched nerves in spine
- Facet joint arthritis with spinal ligament degeneration - It can lead to narrowing of the space around the spinal cord called spinal canal stenosis. This can cause back & leg pain.
- Osteoporosis can cause vertebra fracture & can cause back pain. It's common in old age.
- Rare causes - Spine Cancer, infection, cauda equina syndrome.
RED FLAG SIGNS - Contact your physician immediately when you have
- constant unrelieved pain,
- pain going in legs specially below knee, causing weakness & numbness, or
- loss of bowel / bladder control,
- Pain following fall or trauma,
- Pain associated with abdominal pain or
- Back pain with fever or associated with unexpected weight loss.
Lower Back Pain Symptoms - What are they?
Special Investigations in pain clinics -
Diagnostic / Therapeutic Injections in spine can be done to establish the cause of your pain. Few tests done are -
- Selective root or transforaminal Epidural steroid injections,
- facet joint or its nerve block, if positive then treated by radiofrequency ablation (RFA),
- Provocative discography, and if its positive than treated with Percutaneous Disc FX Discectomy, Dekompressor / ozone discectomy, Percutaneous endoscopic transforaminal discectomy.
Pain physicians at PCI are pioneer and leaders in these advanced minimally invasive techniques with more than 15000 procedures already being performed since 2001.
