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What to Know About Back Pain
What are the different types of back pain?
Back pain is relatively common, and most of us will experience it at some point. There are three main types of back pain:
- Acute: This pain happens suddenly—for instance, an injury or accident may cause it—and it generally lasts a few days or weeks.
- Subacute: This pain can come on suddenly or gradually and usually lasts 4-12 weeks.
- Chronic: This pain is ongoing and typically lasts 12 weeks or more.
You can also experience pain in different parts of your back. In most cases, you’ll have either lower or upper back pain. Lower back pain is more common, and it’s defined as pain anywhere in your back below your ribcage. This part of your back is more prone to pain and injury because it supports most of your upper body’s weight. The pain may feel sharp or like a dull, sore ache.
Upper back pain affects the upper part of the back, also known as the thoracic spine. This pain is often caused by bad posture, overuse, injury, fractures, and more. If you spend a lot of time sitting at a desk and working at a computer, you might experience this type of pain. It’s often accompanied by neck and shoulder pain.
What causes back pain?
There are many causes of back pain, and they range from seemingly benign to severe. While a serious accident can make your back hurt, simply sitting at a desk for too many hours without stretching can also cause pain.
As you get older, your chances of experiencing back pain increase. This means it’s particularly important to understand the causes and risk factors that can contribute to back pain.
Some possible causes include:
- Injuries: It can be surprisingly easy to injure your back. You might experience a strain, fracture, or muscle spasm. Having very tight, tense muscles in your back can also contribute to strains and spasms. Another common cause of back pain is having herniated disks—this happens when there is an injury to one of the smooth, rubbery disks located between each vertebra.
- Structural problems: Abnormalities in your spine’s structure can cause pain, such as herniated disks, degenerative disk disease, fractures, scoliosis, and spinal stenosis (narrowing of the spinal column).
- Inflammation: Several health conditions can cause inflammation in the spine. Examples include ankylosing spondylitis and other types of inflammatory arthritis. Doing too much of the same movement can also put strain on your back and contribute to inflammation. This is especially common in physical jobs, such as construction work, manual labor, and childcare.
- Other health conditions: A variety of other health conditions can cause back pain. Some examples include osteoporosis, bone infections, tumors, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, kidney stones, and pregnancy.
- Lifestyle factors: Your posture, how you sleep, obesity, poor fitness levels, and other factors play a role in how likely you are to experience back pain.
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If one of our Fixsie Health-affiliated clinicians believes it’s medically appropriate, they’ll write a prescription and send it to a local pharmacy of your choice. To get a prescription, you’ll need to submit:
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Our memberships are not insurance and do not include any ancillary services, (e.g.) laboratory tests, durable medical equipment, appointments with other providers or specialists that we may refer you to, emergency or in-person urgent care facility visits; cost of medication and other referrals. See Terms of Service.
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*Urgent Care is available in 48 states of the US. Not available in Alaska or Hawaii. Pediatrics is only available in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Children ages 3-17 must have parental consent.
Our memberships are not insurance and do not include any ancillary services, (e.g.) laboratory tests, durable medical equipment, appointments with other providers or specialists that we may refer you to, emergency or in-person urgent care facility visits; cost of medication and other referrals.
See Terms of Service.
Our affiliated clinicians can diagnose and treat most things you might see an in-person primary care doctor for. However, there are sometimes instances when we recommend you see a doctor in person.
For example, ear infections and strep throat are two common conditions that require an in-person consultation for diagnosis. However, our affiliated clinicians can help assess severity and provide guidance on what to do next.
We also don’t treat anyone who:
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*Urgent Care is available in all 48 continental US states. Not available in Alaska or Hawaii. Our memberships are not insurance and exclude ancillary services (e.g., referrals, labs, equipment, cost of medication, etc). See Terms of Service.
