What are the Symptoms of Lower Back Pain?
In addition to the pain felt in the lumbar area of the back, you might also experience a radiating pain that can extend to your upper back region, your pelvic or abdominal area, or into your hips and legs. The pain could consist of a tingling or burning sensation, a dull ache or a sharper variety of pain. The type of pain could clue your doctor in to what the possible cause of your back pain is. Pain can be the result of injury to muscles, ligaments or nerves, or it can be a combination of factors. Sometimes there is no known cause of lower back pain, but the symptoms are still very real and need to be treated accordingly. Another common lower back pain symptom is a shooting pain, numbness or tingling down one or both legs and even into the feet. There can be some swelling or weakness in one leg which may indicate that a nerve has been compressed or pinched somewhere in the area of the spine. You may not be able to flex your foot or raise your big toe as you normally would be able to.
