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Sacroiliac Joint Pain - is discomfort in the lower back, where the base of the spine meets the pelvis. Pain is simply a symptom that may come from a condition or a disease. Sometimes physicians are unsure whether the pain starts in the joint or in its surrounding ligaments. Pain to this region can be caused by the following factors: twisting, bending, or moving in a way that triggers joint pain; osteoarthritis of the joint; and trauma, stress, fractures, or inflammation of the joint.
Sciatica Nerve Pain - is a commonly used term to describe pain that originates at the bottom of the spine but that is more intense in the leg. Pain typically radiates from the buttocks to the back of the leg. Sciatica usually involves compression or irritation of one or more exiting lumbar or sacral spinal nerve roots. It can also be caused by pressure on a nerve root from a bulging or herniated disc.
Shoulder Pain - is any pain in or around the shoulder joint. Other conditions that may involve shoulder pain are: complex regional pain syndrome; shoulder-hand syndrome; reflex-sympathetic dystrophy syndrome; Sudeck’s atrophy; thoracic outlet syndrome; and polymyalgia rheumaticia. People with fibromyalgia may have shoulder pain because the condition is characterized by widespread pain in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues.
Spinal Injury - is usually considered spinal-cord injury, when damage to the spinal cord results in a loss of function. Frequent causes are trauma, car accidents, falls, or disease. The spinal cord does not have to be severed in order for loss of function to occur, but damage to it will cause loss of function. Spinal-cord injury differs from back injuries, such as ruptured disks, spinal stenosis, or pinched nerves.
Spine Facet Joint Pain. The small joints between the bones of the spine allow it to bend and twist. Arthritis can affect these facet joints, resulting in chronic pain, usually in the neck or lower back. Facet pain can be diagnosed by an injection of the affected joint with an anesthetic. If successful, the nerve of the joint can be heated with sound waves, a procedure called radio-frequency facet rhizotomy, leading to longer-lasting pain relief.
Sports Injury. Some 10 million sports injuries are treated each year in the United States, and sports medicine can be applied to the treatment of most musculo-skeletal injuries. Body tissues are susceptible to injury because of inherent weakness or biomechanical factors. Muscles, tendons, and ligaments may be injured when they are too weak for a given sport. The hands, wrists, and knees are commonly injured, and the most common cause is overuse, repetitive motion that stresses susceptible tissues.
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