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Severe Back Pain During Third Trimester
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- Back pain can be acute, subacute, or chronic, and more commonly occurs in the lower area of the back.
- Acute back pain develops suddenly and lasts up to several weeks. Acute pain is the most common type of back pain.
- Subacute back pain is pain that lasts up to three months.
- Chronic back pain can begin abruptly or gradually, linger, subside and then come back, but it lasts longer than 3 months.
- With proper self-care, most acute cases resolve within 4 - 6 weeks. Two-thirds of...
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