Health Update : Clues to low back pain

Low back pain plagues nearly everyone at some point and can interfere with your life and work.

Hare a few possible causes that might explain why you're in pain :

• lifting an object and using your back, not your legs
• degenerative changes in the spine due to ageing
• straining your back during activities
• an injury to a disk in your spine
• spondylolisthesis - a condition in which the vertebrae slips out of place and put pressure on nerves in the spine
• spinal stenosis which occurs when the space around the spine narrows, resulting in pressure on nearby nerves and the spinal cord
• scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine

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