{"id":1595,"date":"2018-09-29T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2023-04-20T06:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:37:53","slug":"causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/orthopedics\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of mild to severe lower back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\"><strong>Lower back pain<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Chronic &#8211; lasting for more than 6 weeks<br \/>\n\u2022 Acute &#8211; lasting less than 6 weeks<\/p>\n<p>There are three types of back pain:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Axial Lower Back Pain<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Most common<br \/>\n\u2022 Can be either sharp or dull aching pain<br \/>\n\u2022 Sometimes severe enough to limit movement of your back<br \/>\n\u2022 Worsens with repetitive activity or long sitting \/ prolonged sitting in one position<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lumbar Radiculopathy<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Lumbar Radiculopathy is because of compressed nerve roots<br \/>\n\u2022 Can be severe in the leg than in low back<br \/>\n\u2022 Prolonged radiculopathy will be associated with weakness and numbers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Causes of lower back pain<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Muscle strain- Due to poor core muscle strength<br \/>\n\u2022 Trauma &#8211; From accidents, injuries and falls<br \/>\n\u2022 Obesity<br \/>\n\u2022 Stress<br \/>\n\u2022 Poor Ergonomic postures in day to day activities<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-144x300.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-492x1024.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-768x1600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-737x1536.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-983x2048.jpg 983w, https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/causes-of-mild-to-severe-lower-back-pain-600x1250.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kauvery Hospital is globally known for its multidisciplinary services at all its Centers of Excellence, and for its comprehensive, Avant-Grade technology, especially in diagnostics and remedial care in heart diseases, transplantation, vascular and neurosciences medicine. Located in the heart of Trichy (Tennur, Royal Road and Alexandria Road (Cantonment), Chennai, Hosur, Salem, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru, the hospital also renders adult and pediatric trauma care.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai \u2013 044 4000 6000 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Cantonment \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Heartcity \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Trichy \u2013 Tennur \u2013 0431 4022555 \u2022 Maa Kauvery Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Kauvery Cancer Institute, Trichy \u2013 0431 4077777 \u2022 Hosur \u2013 04344 272727 \u2022 Salem \u2013 0427 2677777 \u2022 Tirunelveli &#8211; 0462 4006000 \u2022 Bengaluru &#8211; 080 6801 6801<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower back pain \u2022 Chronic &#8211; lasting for more than 6 weeks \u2022 Acute &#8211; lasting less than 6 weeks There are three types of back pain:- Axial Lower Back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orthopedics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8916,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/8916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kauveryhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}