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Low Back Pain

Disorders that can result in Low back pain: - This is a far from complete list, but we put the major players at the top

1. Back injury from
   
   • Traumatic Accidents – Vehicles, Sports, Falls, Blows, etc
   • New exercise programs or sports and leisure activities
   • Repetitive Motion Injury
   • Excessive or improper lifting
   • Other Improper Movements
   • Poor Posture
   - Including “guarding” of painful back area
   
   Leading to:
   • Soft Tissue strain (high occurrence rate)
   • Soft Tissue Sprain (high occurrence rate)
   • Muscle Spasms (high occurrence rate)
   • Normal Inflammation (high occurrence rate)
   • Spinal Misalignment
   • Fracture (low occurrence – unless in accident, vehicle, fall, high impact sports accident, osteoporosis, etc)
   • Disc injury (low occurrence unless already degenerating and/or involved in accident as listed above)

The following are in no particular order of priority

2. Degenerative Spine Dis-ease
3. Degenerative Disc Disease (disc disorders - a part of “Degenerative Spine Dis-ease”)
4. Incorrect Sleeping Position
5. Poor Nutrition
6. Essential Fatty Acid Imbalance
7. Poor Sleep
8. Incorrect Low-Back Sleeping Support
9. Stress – Physical and Emotional
10. Pregnancy- especially with excessive weight gain
11. Fibromyalgia
12. Depression
13. Osteoarthritis (a degenerative rheumatic dis-ease)
14. Rheumatic disease - Any one a group of conditions characterized by inflammation and/or pain in the muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue – including connective tissue conditions and diseases that affects the major substances in the skin, tendons, and bones
15. Polymyalgia rheumatica and Giant cell arteritis
16. Facet Joint Syndrome
17. Disc disorders
18. Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome
19. Chronic pain
20. Chronic Inflammation
21. Maldynia
22. Sciatica
23. Piriformis syndrome
24. Osteomalacia softening of the bones due to a calcium deficiency and phosphorus deficiency, is often corrected by supplemental vitamin D and calcium
25. Osteoporosis
    • Vertebrae Fractures
26. Ankylosing Spondylitis
27. Spondylosis
28. Spinal Stenosis – Spinal Cord and/or Nerve Root
29. Nerve Disorders
30. Bowel Disorders
    • Crohn's disease
    • Ulcerative colitis
    • Leaky-Gut Syndrome
31. Liver dysfunction
32. Whiplash
33. Kidney Stones
34. Body Burden: The number and types of Toxic Chemical (selection up to 80,000) residue present in your tissues: - environmental and occupational radioactive and chemical exposures, (including PCB, pesticide and herbicides, xenoestrogens- and other endocrine disruptors,) and metals
35. Chemical drugs (pharmaceuticals) interactions and side-effects
36. Oxidative Stress Leve
    

Conditions of a more Unlikely nature that can cause low back pain (this list is also not complete)

37. Diskitis: an infection in the disk space is unusual in a patient who has not undergone a lumbar surgery, but it is more prevalent in patients who have a compromised immune system
38. Arachnoiditis: a scarring of the arachnoid membrane , which is a covering of the nerve roots. The most common cause is previous surgery, although some patients may suffer if they have had myelograms, epidural anaesthesia, epidural blocks in the past. Can result from ankylosing spondylitis and syringomyelelia
39. Tumors
40. Spinal Infection
41. Syringomyelia:- cyst(s) that form within the spinal cord destroying the center of the spinal cord
42. Sacroiliitis: (inflammation of the sacroiliac joint, which connects the spine and pelvis)
43. Chlamydia
44. Endometriosis
45. Oophoritis: - Ovary Inflammation
46. Uterine fibroids
47. Prostatitis: - Inflammation or Infection of the prostate
48. Lyme’s Disease
49. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
50. Kidney
51. Liver
52. Prostate Cancer
53. Colorectal Polyps
54. Cancer