Non-specific low back pain? Confused?
If you go to your doctor with a painful lower back, there's around an 85-90% chance that you will be diagnosed with [...]
How does your back pain / sciatica feel?
I'm hugely interested in how we describe our pains. Lower back pain and sciatica seem to come with an endless list of [...]
Where does back pain come from?
Guess where the pain in your back comes from? Your head. Before you slap me with your disability parking badge, hear me [...]
Has your back really “gone out”?
Do you think you've "put your back out", or "thrown your back out"? If it went out, where did it go? Which [...]
How to keep working with 2 lumbar disc prolapses
Most of the time he just felt his lower back "wasn't right" - that he was only able to give 90% at [...]
Have I got sciatica?
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What is a prolapsed disc?
If you've been diagnosed with a prolapsed disc, or you think you might have one, here are a few pointers that I [...]
“Could Lower Back Pain / Sciatica Kill Me?”
The great author Iain Banks died in 2013 as a result of gall bladder cancer; his first symptom was back pain. So, [...]
Causes of sciatica
Sciatica is a description - not a diagnosis; see our video for more info on this. Sciatica most frequently causes pain deep [...]
Lower Back Pain Quiz Answers
Following on from last weeks Lower Back Pain Quiz, here's the detail on the answers. This quiz is based on the latest [...]