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Health Encyclopedia: Back Pain And Sciatica Risk Factors

Risk Factors

In most known cases, pain begins with an injury, after lifting a heavy object, or after making an abrupt movement. Not all people experience back pain after such events, however. A number of conditions may make people more or less susceptible to low back pain. In 85% of back pain cases, the causes are unknown.

Aging Process

Intervertebral disks begin deteriorating and growing thinner by age 30. One-third of adults over 20 show evidence of herniated disks (although only 3% of these disk...

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Expert & Community Posts

Doctor Mom

By Deborah Gray , Health Expert

...up, but less relieved when we found out that the back pain was due to pneumonia.I think I must... Read more »

How to Relieve (and Prevent) Lower Back Pain From Returning

By Grant Cooper , Health Expert

If I had an episode of lower back pain, am I always going to be more likely to have lower back pain... Read more »

Best Book of the Summer

By Tracy Davenport , Health Expert

...and your own severest critic? In his book Mind Over Back Pain, Dr. John Sarno describes these... Read more »

First Aid for Back Pain

By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert

Many would argue that back pain is inevitable and for some it becomes a sudden reality. Bending... Read more »

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Health Guide

Scoliosis: Prognosis

...scoliosis causes significant health problems later on. Some studies have found no difference in either back pain or survival rates in adult untreated patients versus the general population. In one... Read more »

Hip pain

...you feel in the hip may actually reflect a problem in your back, rather than your hip itself. See low back pain. Common Causes Two possible causes of hip pain are fractures and... Read more »

Health Risks of Smoking

...or hip replacements.Smokers whose jobs involve lifting heavy objects are more likely to develop low back pain than nonsmokers.Smoking may increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in some older... Read more »

Hepatitis: Hepatitis C

...vomiting, and diarrhea, and, in severe cases intestinal bleeding and ulcersFatigue and general weaknessBack painComplications in the lungs, including worsening of asthma. In severe cases,... Read more »

Back Pain and Sciatica: Introduction

Alternative TreatmentsAcupuncture. People with back pain find longer lasting relief from acupuncture than physical therapy, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Another... Read more »

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