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Lower Back Pain Symptoms.


"Lower back pain symptoms are many and varied - all need to be examined carefully before deciding on the appropriate treatment for your lower back pain."
The symptoms range from lower back pain alone, to lower back pain with or without pins and needles and numbness in the legs.

The most common symptoms of lower back pain that I see are lower right back pain with pain radiating down the right leg. I also see lower left side back pain and central lower back pain, but less frequently.

However, remember I see up to 20 patients a day in my physiotherapy practice and 80% of my clients have low back pain symptoms!!


Pain in the lower back can arise from many structures in your body. When it comes to the causes of lower back pain, the most common structures causing lower back pain are your discs, nerves, joints, ligaments and muscles. These structures can become strained, torn or impinged causing your lower back symptoms.


  • The symptom of pain in your lower back is due to a dysfunction of a disc, joint, ligament or muscle - and this results in an inflammatory response causing pain. Inflammation causes pain!

  • The symptom of pins and needles is due to a nerve in your lower back being trapped, impinged or damaged. Where the nerve is trapped will dictate where your pins and needles are.

  • The symptom of numbness, is also due to a nerve being trapped, impinged or diseased in some way.



Movement (standing up, sitting down, walking, reaching etc.) is the most common aggravating factor of mechanical lower back pain symptoms.


If you experience lower back pain at night - and it is not eased by positioning your body in a certain way then you should seek immediate medical attention to eliminate any sinister cause of your lower back pain symptoms.


I have 2 pieces of advice with regard to lower back pain symptoms. If it occurred for a known reason and disappears within 72 hours don’t worry too much. If it persists longer than 72 hours and occurs for no apparent reason, or rates higher than 4/10 on a pain scale, then seek medical advice, preferably from a Chartered Physiotherapist who specialises in lower back pain.



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