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Within Vinony's link graph, back pain is referenced by 395 other articles, and connects out to Paracetamol, metastasis and lower back pain.
It is catalogued under topics including Bones of the vertebral column, Human back and Pain.
Its subject is documented across 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Specialty
- Orthopedics
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
104,460 papers- Back Pain: Differential Diagnosis and Management.Neurologic clinics · 2023
- Low Back Pain, a Comprehensive Review: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Current pain and headache reports · 2019
- Acute and chronic low back pain.The Medical clinics of North America · 2014
- On the definitions and physiology of back pain, referred pain, and radicular pain.Pain · 2009
- Back pain.Bailliere's clinical rheumatology · 1995
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- symptom
- Image
- Dolor espalda.png
Show 8 more facts
- anatomical location
- back
- Commons category
- Back pain
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000006
- health specialty
- orthopedics
- has cause
- injury
- ICPC 2 ID
- L02
- does not have cause
- epidural anesthesia
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C41830
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Back pain (Latin: dorsalgia) is pain felt in the back. It may be classified as neck pain (cervical), middle back pain (thoracic), lower back pain (lumbar) or coccydynia (tailbone or sacral pain) based on the segment affected. The lumbar region is the most commonly affected area. An episode of back pain may be acute, subacute or chronic depending on the duration. The pain may be characterized as a dull ache, shooting or piercing pain or a burning sensation. Discomfort can radiate to the arms and hands as well as the legs or feet, and may include numbness or weakness in the legs and arms.
The majority of back pain is nonspecific and idiopathic. Common underlying mechanisms include degenerative or traumatic changes to the discs and facet joints, which can then cause secondary pain in the muscles and nerves and referred pain to the bones, joints and extremities. Diseases and inflammation of the gallbladder, pancreas, aorta and kidneys may also cause referred pain in the back. Tumors of the vertebrae, neural tissues and adjacent structures can also manifest as back pain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “back pain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.