A 65-year-old woman with a background of type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease presents with gradual onset lower back pain.
A 65-year-old woman with a background of type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease presents with gradual onset lower back pain.
A 25-year-old man has attended the Emergency Department four times in the last fortnight with low back pain.
A 67-year-old man, with a background of type II diabetes, presents with pain in the left side of his neck, lower back pain and numbness in his left arm.
A 72-year-old male presents to the ED with abdominal pain that has progressively worsened over the last 8 weeks.
Referred pain into the upper extremities often accompanies neck pain. Referred pain can be the initial symptom of a compressed nerve root by a ruptured disc or stenosis at the foramina from osteophytes.