Lower Back Pain Health Center
Millions of people suffer from some form of lower back pain. In fact, Americans spend nearly $100 billion dollars a year to combat their low back pain. Often rest and over-the-counter pain medication are sufficient treatments. However, some episodes of low back pain are signs of more serious conditions. Low back pain can result from something simple, like cleaning house or lifting a heavy box, or it can be caused by a diagnosable spine condition like a herniated disc or degenerative disc disease. Most of the time, though, a patient's back pain that cannot be linked to a cause. It does not make the pain any less real, though.
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Leg Pain and Numbness: What Might These Symptoms Mean?
Quite often leg pain or foot pain is not caused by a problem in the leg or foot, but rather by a condition in the lower back.
What You Need to Know About Sciatica
The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain and possibly tingling, numbness or weakness that travels from the low back through the buttock and down the large sciatic nerve in the back of the leg.
Foot Pain Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
What may come as a surprise is that many types of pain in the foot may have nothing to do with the foot or the leg, but rather a problem in the lower back.
Foot Drop Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
While foot drop is a neuromuscular disorder that affects the nerves and muscles, it is not actually a disease in itself but rather a symptom of some other medical problem, possibly by a condition in the low back.