Glossary

Pain that follows the path of a nerve

Inflammation of the muscles

"Muscle pain" and is a symptom of many diseases and disorders

Numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve that extends from the thigh to the spinal column.

A joint of the body, between the last lumbar vertebra and the first sacral segment of the spinal cord

Low back pain is one of the most commonly seen clinicalentities, both in primary care and pain clinic arena.Back pain generally is subdivided into axial (nonradiating) and radicular (radiating) pain. An additional subdivision is whether the pain is acute, subacute, or chronic with different modalities for treating each.

An inward curvature of a portion of the lumbar column.

A spine operation to remove the portion of the vertebral bone called the lamina

Also called hunchback, is a common condition of a curvature of the upper spine

Fear of movement