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Health Encyclopedia: Back Pain And Sciatica Causes

Causes

In about 85% of back pain cases, the origin of the pain is unknown and even imaging studies usually fail to determine the cause. Disk herniation and disk degeneration due to aging are the most common causes of low back pain. Other problems can also cause this pain, however.

Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease

Over the years, the disk can degenerate and produce low-grade inflammation and irritation. This age-related condition is a major source of chronic low back pain.

Herniated Disk and the Infl...

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Expert & Community Posts

Male Osteoporosis

By Neil Gonter, MD , Health Expert

...Inflammatory diseases: inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid... Read more »

What to Ask Your Osteoporosis Doctor

By Neil Gonter, MD , Health Expert

...Inflammatory diseases: inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid... Read more »

Symptoms Outside the GI Tract in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

By Todd Eisner , Health Expert

...that occurs; peripheral arthritis, spondylitis and ankylosing spondylitis. Peripheral arthritis... Read more »

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Health Guide

Spondyloarthritis Symptoms and Causes

Diseases that fall under spondyloarthritis umbrella are ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthritis (known previously as Reiter's syndrome) psoriatic arthritis and psoriatic spondylitis, and the... Read more »

Fibromyalgia: Causes

...in workers who had repetitive stress injuries, although it is not clear which condition came first.Ankylosing spondylitis (arthritis affecting the spine)SurgeryLyme disease Click the icon to see... Read more »

Complications

...female athlete triad. This triad of symptoms includes menstrual dysfunction, eating disorders, and osteoporosis. Eating disorders among young female athletes is estimated at 15 - 62%. Women at... Read more »

Type 1 Diabetes Symptoms

The process that destroys the insulin-producing beta cells can be a long and insidious one. At the point when insulin production bottoms out, however, type 1 diabetes usually appears suddenly... Read more »

Menstrual Disorders: Complications

...are anemic, particularly in the first trimester, have an increased risk for a poor pregnancy outcome.OsteoporosisAmenorrhea caused by reduced estrogen levels increases the risk for osteoporosis... Read more »

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Osteoporosis and Loss of Height

View an image showing the effects of osteoporosis on our bodies.... Read more »

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