| Low back pain is one of the most common
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| | foot. One may notice the affected leg is
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| reasons for visiting a primary care
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| | weak and have foot drop or the inability
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| physician. People may experience back
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| | to extend the great toe. Although pain
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| pain after lifting heavy objects,
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| | caused by a pinched sciatic nerve
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| twisting and turning their backs during
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| | (sciatica) can be very painful and
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| exercise or household chores, or after a
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| | debilitating, there is no risk of
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| period of inactivity. This article
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| | permanent nerve damage or paralysis.
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| discusses the possible causes and
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| | Sciatica is treated with physical
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| treatments for many sources of lower back
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| | therapy, massage, anti-inflammatories and
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| pain. Low back
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| | manipulative treatments.
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| pain is one of the most common reasons
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| | A herniated disk or narrowed spinal
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| for visiting a primary care physician.
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| | column (spinal stenosis) can also cause
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| People may experience back pain after
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| | low back pain. The pain is achy or sharp
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| lifting heavy objects, twisting and
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| | and can worsen suddenly if nerves are
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| turning their backs during exercise or
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| | compressed, leading to the symptoms
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| household chores, or after a period of
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| | discussed above. A primary difference
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| inactivity. Acute low back pain is often
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| | between these conditions is that the pain
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| caused by muscle inflammation and spasm
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| | from a bulging disk is made worse from
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| and may start suddenly or increase
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| | bending forward and decreased by leaning
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| gradually over time. It may occur in the
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| | backward. The opposite is true for spinal
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| center of the low back or next to the
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| | stenosis pain. The pain from both of
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| spine on either side. The pain from
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| | these conditions gets better with laying
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| muscle strain and spasm is often achy and
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| | down. Thee pain caused from sciatica is
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| crampy with periods of sharpness that
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| | usually is not relieved by laying down
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| occur because of "stressing" the involved
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| | (it may even get worse). The development
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| muscle. Laying down usually relieves the
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| | of sudden leg weakness, lack of sensation
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| pain. The pain is often accompanied by
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| | in the pelvic area and involuntary
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| stiffness when moving the lower back and
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| | leakage of urine or stool are signs of
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| very tender muscles. It will usually get
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| | cauda equina syndrome. The cauda equina
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| better with regular use of rest, heat,
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| | is a "tail" of nerves at the end of the
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| massage and/or anti-inflammatories and/or
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| | spinal cord. If these nerves are pinched,
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| muscle relaxants for two to four weeks.
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| | it produces the cauda equina syndrome. In
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| Moist heat applied for 20 minutes three
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| | addition to the conservative treatments
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| to four times daily and taking 200 to 800
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| | for a pinched nerve, surgery may be an
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| mg per day of ibuprofen helps relieve the
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| | option to reduce the impingement by
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| contracted and inflamed muscles. People
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| | removing the disk or fusing the vertebrae
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| can hasten recovery by continuing to be
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| | to widen the spinal column.
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| as active as tolerated and not to lift
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| | Other non-muscular and non-neurologic
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| heavy objects or move in ways that
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| | causes of back pain are infection and
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| aggravate the pain.
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| | cancer. Warning signs that these
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| Low back pain which lasts more than 6
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| | conditions may be a cause of acute or
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| weeks and/or begins to change in
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| | chronic low back are fever, chills, lack
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| character needs to be evaluated by a
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| | of improvement with regular use of
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| physician. If the pain becomes sharp and
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| | anti-inflammatories and exercise, and
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| begins to radiate into the buttocks or
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| | pain that worsens with laying on the
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| down the legs, a nerve may be pinched.
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| | back. It is important to inform a
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| The most common nerve affected by
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| | physician about these symptoms so that
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| muscular spasm, spinal stenosis or a
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| | blood tests and imaging studies can be
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| herniated disk is the sciatic nerve. The
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| | ordered to diagnose and treat these
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| sciatic nerve is a combination of nerve
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| | conditions before complications arise.
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| roots which come from the lower spinal
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| | The injury associated with low back pain
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| cord (L4-S3) and form the largest nerve
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| | can be prevented by regular exercise
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| in the body. When a combination of the
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| | (such as walking and low back exercises),
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| nerve roots or the whole nerve is
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| | maintenance of a healthy body weight and
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| pinched, one experiences pain, tingling
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| | using correct body mechanics when lifting
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| or numbness in the buttock or the
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| | heavy objects.
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| backside of the leg past the knee to the
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