Bad Back Pain. Back pain may be caused by a combination of several factors including emotional ones. Approximately 80 of adults will experience back pain in their lives so its important to be able to identify the severity of your symptoms and track how long the pain lasts.
Very rarely back pain can be a sign of a serious problem such as. Onset of pain in a person aged over 50 years or under 20 years. Back pain following minor trauma in people with thinning of the bones osteoporosis.
Cauda equina syndrome where the nerves in the lower back become severely compressed some types of cancer such as multiple myeloma a type of bone marrow cancer If you see a GP with back.
The most common causes of lower back pain are strain and problems with back structures. A slipped herniated disc a disc bulges and presses on your spinal nerves. Lower back pain is the most common type of musculoskeletal pain experienced by adults with 84 of people experiencing it at least some point in their lives and 23 experiencing it on a chronic basis. In many cases you can chalk it up to the normal stiffness you feel after staying in one position for several hours.