In the latest installment of our video series, The Doctor is In, sports medicine physician Amy West breaks down the three most common types of lower back pain in midlife women ...

Sciatica is pain from the compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve, which runs from the lower back to the feet. The pain can occur anywhere along the nerve. Other causes of hip pain can ...

Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT, DPT, MS Lower back pain affects millions of Americans. Various health conditions can ...

“Low back pain has been the leading cause of disability worldwide for the past 30 years,” said lead and corresponding author Michael Ferraro, a doctoral candidate at the Center for Pain IMPACT ...

Anyone who suffers from chronic low back pain knows how difficult it can be to manage, and how quickly it can turn the most ...

Researchers have reviewed non-drug and non-surgical treatments for low back pain to assess which ones are more likely to ...

Acupuncture. Massage. Muscle relaxants. Cannabinoids. Opioids. The list of available treatments for low back pain goes on and on. But there’s not good evidence that these treatments actually ...

Constipation could potentially cause lower back pain. In other cases, the two symptoms may also have a shared root cause, such as fibroids, digestive conditions, or medications. However ...

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