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 The pain may radiate down the front, side, or back of your leg, or it may be confined to the low back.
The pain may become worse with activity.
Occasionally, the pain may be worse at night or with prolonged sitting such as on a long car trip.
You may have numbness or weakness in the part of the leg that receives its nerve supply from
a compressed nerve.
The most common causes of low back pain are:
Strain or inflammation of muscles, ligaments and tendons
Pressure on nerve roots in the spinal canal
Fractures of the back bones (vertebrae)
At the THE PAIN SPECIALIST CENTRE, we will perform an initial assessment of low back pain that typically includes a medical history and physical examination. By asking you certain questions and doing strength and movement tests, we can check for serious underlying conditions, such as fractures, tumours, infection and severe nerve damage.
Low Back Pain Treatment can be either surgical or non-surgical, depending on your specific condition.
Non-surgical
Medication
Many patients benefit from medication, which relieves low back pain and reduces inflammation
or muscle spasms.
Interventional therapy
Mainly in the form of injections, this is used to treat the underlying spine disease.
Subsequent treatment may include:
a) radiofrequency, and/or
b) nerve roots repair using microcatheters.
Such procedures last for about 30 minutes and are performed under local anaesthesia with mild sedation. You will be fit to go home after one to two hours under observation.
Surgical
You will be referred to an orthopaedic surgeon for further assessment.
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