Back pain is a common medical condition that can affect people of all ages. It can be acute, lasting a few days to a few weeks, or chronic, persisting for more than three months. Back pain can result from various causes, and it can affect different regions of the back, including the upper, middle, or lower back.

1. Back Pain

2. INTRODUCTION
• Back pain is one of the most medical problem in
the world most low back pain is result of an injury
such as muscle sprain or strain due to sudden
movement or poor body mechanics while lifting
heavy weight.

3. Causes of back pain
1. Muscle strain and ligament sprain
2. Lumber herniated disc
3. Degenerative disc disease
4. Facet joint disfuntion
5. Sacroiliac joint disfunction
6. Spinal stenosis
7. Spondylolysthesis
8. Osteoarthritis
9. Deformity

4. Causes
• Trauma
• Compression fracture
• Infection
• Tumor
• Autoimmune disease

5. Types of back pain
Mechanical
• Patient History
• Localized or radiating
pain
• Pain changing with
movement
• Respond to Conservative
treatment
• Disc degeneration,
stenosis, muscle strain.
Non Mechanical
• May or may not history
present.
• Referred pain
• Resting pain
• No respond to
Conservative treatment
• TB of spine, Tumor

6. Investigations
• X Rays
• ESR
• Bone scan
• CT scan
• MRI

7. Features that back pain is serious
• Weight loss
• Fever
• Raised ESR
• Symptoms elsewhere e. g cough