Lower Back Pain

Seek professional care if you experience any of the following symptoms

• Fever

• Intermenstrual bleeding

• Numbness of lower limbs

• Abnormal sensation (tingling, prickling)

• Abdominal pain

• Lower abdominal pain

• Low back pain

  Low back pain is very common. More than 80% of people have at least one episode of low back pain during their lifetime. Back pain is usually not serious and most often resolves on its own, but can be frustrating when pain interferes with daily life. Risk factors include smoking, obesity, older age, female sex, physically strenuous or sedentary work, stress, and mental health issues. Serious causes include menstrual problems, injury, slipped disc, nerve disease, spine disease, joint deformities etc.

• osteoporosis

  Osteoporosis is a disease that makes your bones weak and brittle, resulting in the bone to frature easily even with minor truma/ stress (for instance, after a simple fall). It my be caused due to long-term low calcium intake, estrogen deficiencies in women and inactive lifestyle.

• Diabetes mellitus (DM)

  A disease where blood sugar levels are abnormally high, due to problems with insulin production or resistance. There are often no symptoms until the condition has worsened, hence regular screening is important.

• Lumbar spondylosis
• Chronic pain
• Neuropathic pain
• Acute low back pain
• Ovulation bleeding
• Osteoarthritis (OA)
• Vertebral compression fracture