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Low Back Pain History

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1. Serious Low Back Symptoms
Symptoms: Low Back Pain Onset
1. Onset
  1. Acute Low Back Pain onset within 3 months
  2. Chronic Low Back Pain persistent beyond 3 months
2. Follows Trauma, bending, or lifting
  1. Suggests Lumbar Disc Disease
3. Morning back stiffness with pain before age 40
  1. Suggests Spondyloarthropathy
Symptoms: Low Back Pain Location and Radiation
1. Leg
2. Buttock
3. Abdomen
4. Spine
Symptoms: Low Back Pain Provocation
1. Prolonged sitting provokes pain
  1. Lumbar Disc Disease
2. Valsalva (cough, sneeze, or straining) provokes pain
  1. Lumbar Disc Disease
3. Hyperextension provokes pain
  1. Spondylolysis
  2. Sacroiliac Joint Disease
4. Standing or Walking
  1. Characteristic for pseudoclaudication into legs
  2. Suggests spinal stenosis
Symptoms: Low Back Pain Palliation
1. Rest (relative or complete?)
2. Ice or heat?
3. Medications?
4. Lying with knees flexed relieves pain
  1. Lumbar Disc Disease
5. Sitting relieves pain
  1. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
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