Low Back Pain

Probably the most common reason to seek medical attention and also one of the most expensive ailments to society. To get proper treatment first you have to make an opinion where the pain is coming from. Once you rule out extra abdominal causes of back pain, (back pain can be symptom of many maladies form abdominal aortic aneurysm to metastasic prostate cancer), there are to our knowledge about five things that cause back pain consistently. The intervertebral disk, the facet joints, nerve roots, ligaments, and muscles. Unfortunately treatments for each specific cause of pain is different, and despite what would you think with the advent of highly detailed computer imaging the cause of pain is oftentimes equivocal.