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Causes of Back pain
This section discusses 479
medical conditions causing Back pain.
A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Back pain:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Back pain.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
Causes of Back pain listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Back pain as a symptom include:
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Conditions listing medical symptoms: Back pain:
The following list of conditions
have 'Back pain' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
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- Paget's disease of bone
... back pain
- Paget's disease, type 1
... back pain
- Paget's disease, type 4
... back pain
- Pancreatic Acinar Cell Tumors
... back pain
- Pancreatic cancer
... upper back pain
- Pancreatic cancer, adult
... back pain
- Pancreatic carcinoma, familial
... back pain
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (non-functioning tumor)
... back pain
- Pancreatitis
... Back pain
- Papillary renal cell carcinoma
... lower back pain
- Polycystic kidney disease
... Pain in the back, Pain in the lower sides
- Polycystic kidney disease, adult type
... back pain
- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile type
... back pain
- Polycystic kidney disease, type 2
... back pain
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
... lower back pain, back pain
- Pompe disease
... Lower back pain
- Porphyria
... back pain
- Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis
... dull back pain
- Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis
... back pain
- Prostate Cancer
... lower back pain
- Prostate cancer, familial
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 1
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 10
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 11
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 12
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 13
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 14
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 15
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 2
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 3
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 4
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 5
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 6
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 7
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 8
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 9
... back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, X-linked 2
... back pain
- Prostatitis
... lower back pain, pain in the lower back, low back pain
- Putti-Chavany syndrome
... back pain
- Pyelonephritis
... back pain
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Conditions listing medical complications: Back pain:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Back pain'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete.
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List of 479
causes of Back pain
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause
of Back pain in our database from various sources.
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm - back pain
- Abdominal disorders
- Acute bacterial prostatitis - pain in the lower back
- Acute hemolytic state
- Acute idiopathic polyneuritis - back pain
- Acute intermittent porphyria - back pain
- Acute prostatitis - lower back pain
- Acuteleukemia
- Addison's Disease - back pain
- Addisonian crisis - back pain
- Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell - backache
- Adenosarcoma of the uterus - back pain
- Alkaptonuria
- Alternating Bowel Habit IBS - Backache
- Aneurysm
- Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage - back pain
- Angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia - back pain
- Angioma
- Ankylosing hyperostosis
- Ankylosing spondylarthritis - back pain
- Ankylosing spondylitis - lower back pain
- Anxiety
- Aorta conditions - Back pain
- Aortic aneurysm, abdominal
- Aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 1 - back pain
- Aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 2 - back pain
- Aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 3 - back pain
- Aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 4 - back pain
- Aortic aneurysm, familial thoracic 5 - back pain
- Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic - back pain
- Appendicitis
- Arthritis
- Autoimmune oophoritis - lower back pain
- Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease - back pain
- Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease - back pain
- Axial osteomalacia - back pain
- Axial osteosclerosis - low back pain
- Back injuries - back pain
- Back injury
- Back muscle injury
- Back muscle spasm
- Back operation
- Back pain - back pain
- Back sprain - back pain
- Back strain
- Back tumor
- Back tumour - back pain
- Backache - Back pain
- Bacterial endocarditis - back pain
- Bacterial prostatitis - low back pain
- Barsony-Polgar syndrome 1 - lower back pain
- Bartonella infections - backache
- Beardwell syndrome - back pain
- Biliary tract cancer - back pain
- Blood cancer - back pain
- Bone cancer
- Bone injury
- Bone metastases
- Break-bone fever
- Breakdance back syndrome - lower back pain
- Breast cancer
- Bright's Disease - backache
- Brucellosis - back pains
- Bwamba virus - backache
- Calculus
- Carcinomatous meningitis - back pain
- Cast syndrome - severe back pain
- Cat scratch disease - backache
- Cauda equina syndrome - pain in the back
- Cerebral Autosomal Recessive Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy - pain in lower back
- Cervical spondylosis
- Cervix cancer
- Chat room addiction - back aches
- Chiari-Frommel syndrome - backache
- Chikungunya - backache
- Chlamydia - lower back pain
- Chlamydial Infection - lower back pain
- Cholecystitis - back pain
- Cholesterol embolism
- Chondrodysplasia, type Nance-Sweeney - back pain
- Chordoma - back pain
- Chordroma
- Chromophil renal cell carcinoma - back pain
- Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma - back pain
- Chronic cervictis
- Chronic interstitial nephritis - lower back pain
- Chronic leukemia
- Chronic meningitis
- Chronic Pancreatitis - Back pain
- Chronic renal insufficiency - back pain
- Chronic salpingitis
- Clear cell renal cell carcinoma - back pain
- Cobb's syndrome
- Coccydynia - pain of the tailbone.
- Collecting duct carcinoma - back pain
- Colorectal cancer
- Colorectal Polyps - lower back pain
- Combat stress reaction - backache
- Compensation neurosis
- Compound analgesic tablet use
- Computer addiction - back aches
- Congenital bronchogenic cyst - back pain
- Constipation-predominant IBS - Backache
- Copper toxicity - lower back pain
- Corticosteroid use
- Crohn's disease
- Crushed vertebrae
- Cushing syndrome
- Cushing's disease - Backaches
- Cushing's syndrome - backaches
- Danubian endemic familial nephropathy - lower back pain
- Degenerative aneurysm
- Degenerative Disc Disease - lower back pain
- Degenerative disease of the spine
- Dengue
- Dent-Friedman syndrome - back pain
- Depression - backaches
- Depressive disorders - backaches
- Desmoplastic small round cell tumor - back pain
- Dialyzer hypersensitivity syndrome - back pain
- Diarrhea-predominant IBS - Backache
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis - back pain
- Direct injury
- Disc condition
- Disc disorders - Back pain
- Discitis - back pain
- Dissecting aneurysm
- Dressler (D.)syndrome - back pain
- Dysmenorrhoea
- Dysthymia - backaches
- Ectopic pregnancy
- EGE - back pain
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Endometrial stromal sarcoma - back pain
- Endometriosis - lower back pain
- Enlarged left atrium in mitral valve disease
- Enlarged liver
- Eosinophilic enteropathy, pattern II - back pain
- Eosinophilic granuloma metastatic deposits from primary carcinoma of breast
- Eosinophilic granuloma metastatic deposits from primary carcinoma of bronchus
- Eosinophilic granuloma metastatic deposits from primary carcinoma of kidney
- Eosinophilic granuloma metastatic deposits from primary carcinoma of prostate
- Eosinophilic granuloma metastatic deposits from primary carcinoma of thyroid
- Ependymoma - back pain
- Esophageal carcinoma - back pain
- Esophageal disorder - back pain
- Esophagus Cancer - Back pain
- Excessive exertion
- Excessive lifting
- Facet syndrome - back pain
- Familial renal cell carcinoma - lower back pain
- Fatigue
- Fibrocartilaginous embolism - back pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Fibromyositis
- Filaminopathy, autosomal dominant - lower back pain
- Flurosis
- Foix-Alajouanine syndrome - lower back pain
- Fracture
- Frustration
- Functional disorders
- Gallstones - back pain
- Gaming addiction - back aches
- Gemeprost
- Glassy cell carcinoma of the cervix - back pain
- Glenard syndrome - backache
- Glioma
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency - back pain
- Glycogen storage disease type 2 - lower back pain
- Glycogenosis type 2 - lower back pain
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome - back pain
- Hantavirosis - backache
- Heart attack - back pain
- Hemorragic fever with renal syndrome - back pain
- Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer - lower back pain
- Herniated disc - lower back pain
- Hip cancer - back pain
- Hip conditions - Back pain
- Hip injury - Back pain
- Hip Replacement - Back pain
- Hodgkin's disease
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypersecretion of growth hormone - back pain
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Hypophosphataemic rickets
- Hypophosphatemic rickets - back pain
- Hysteria
- Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia - back pain
- Infective endocarditis - back pain
- Inflammatory arthropathies of the spine
- Influenza
- Inheritable disorders of connective tissue - Back pain
- Intercostal neuralgia - left sided back pain
- Intervertebral disc disease - back pain
- Intervertebral disc herniation
- Intervertebral disc lesion
- Intervertebral disk rupture
- Joint injury
- Juvenile osteochondrosis of spine
- Juvenile osteoporosis - lower back pain
- Juvenile Paget's Disease - back pain
- Kidney Cancer - lower back pain
- Kidney carcinoma
- Kidney disease
- Kidney stones - severe back pain
- Labor Pain - back pain
- Lassa fever - back pain
- Lateral meningocele syndrome - back pain
- Leptospirosis icterohemorrhagica
- Leukemia, mast-cell - lower back pain
- Ligament damage
- Ligament injury
- Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2H - back pain
- Lipoma
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Listeriosis of pregnancy - back pain
- Liver cancer - abdominal pain extends to back and shoulder
- Low back strain
- Lower back pain
- Lower back sprain - lower back pain
- Luetic aneurysm
- Lumbago - back pain relieved by rest
- Lumbar instability syndrome
- Lumbar puncture
- Lumbrosacral sprain
- Malignant mixed Mullerian tumor - back pain
- Malingering
- Meningioma
- Meningitis - usually lower back pain if back pain is present.
- Menstrual period pain
- Mesothelioma, adult malignant - back pain
- Mesothelioma, adult malignant -- pleural - back pain
- Metastatic neoplasm
- Metastatic spinal cancer
- Metastatic tumor
- Methysergide use
- Middle back pain
- Mittelschmerz
- MN1 - back pain
- Multifocal fibrosclerosis - lower back pain
- Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia - back pain
- Multiple myeloma - back pain
- Muscle damage
- Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal recessive, type 2H - back pain
- Myelitis - Back pain
- Myelography
- Myeloma
- Myocardial infarction
- Myopathy, X-linked with postural muscle atrophy - back pain
- Neck conditions - Back pain
- Neck injury - Back pain
- Necrotizing papillitis
- Nerve conditions
- Nerve sheath neoplasm - back pain
- Neuroectodermal tumors primitive - back pain
- Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix - backache
- Neurofibroma
- Non functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - back pain
- Normal pregnancy-related back pain - some amount of back aches is common in late pregnancy due to postural changes and weight gain (but can also signify other serious medical conditions).
- Obesity
- Obstructive nephropathy - back pain
- Occult spinal dysraphism - low back pain
- Occupational Cancer -- Liver cancer - Abdominal pain extends to back and shoulder
- Occupational vibrational exposure - back pain
- Ochronosis
- Onset of labor
- Oophoritis - lower back pain
- Opioid withdrawal - back ache
- OSMED, Homozygous - back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteochondritis
- Osteoid osteoma
- Osteomalacia
- Osteomyelitis - back pain not relieved by simple analgesics
- Osteoporosis - backache
- Other causes of symptoms of back pain
- Oto-spondylo-megaepiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive - back pain
- Oto-spondylo-megaepiphyseal dysplasia, homozygous - back pain
- Otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia - back pain
- Ovarian cancer - back pain
- Ovarian carcinosarcoma - back pain
- Overactive parathyroid
- Paget's disease of bone - back pain
- Paget's disease, type 1 - back pain
- Paget's disease, type 4 - back pain
- Pancreatic Acinar Cell Tumors - back pain
- Pancreatic cancer - upper back pain
- Pancreatic cancer, adult - back pain
- Pancreatic carcinoma
- Pancreatic carcinoma, familial - back pain
- Pancreatic inflammation
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (non-functioning tumor) - back pain
- Pancreatitis - Back pain
- Pancreatitis, acute
- Pancreatitis, chronic
- Papillary renal cell carcinoma - lower back pain
- Paratyphyoid fever
- Pelvic abscess
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Peptic ulcers
- Perforated ulcer
- Perforating posterior duodenal ulcer
- Perforating posterior gastric ulcer
- Perinephric abscess
- Period pain
- Polycystic kidney
- Polycystic kidney disease - Pain in the back
- Polycystic kidney disease, adult (autosomal dominant)
- Polycystic kidney disease, adult type - back pain
- Polycystic kidney disease, infantile type - back pain
- Polycystic kidney disease, type 2 - back pain
- Polymyalgia rheumatica - lower back pain
- Polymyositis
- Pompe disease - Lower back pain
- Porphyria - back pain
- Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis - dull back pain
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis - back pain
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Prolapse of uterus
- Prolapsed uterus
- Prostate cancer - lower back pain
- Prostate cancer, familial - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 1 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 10 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 11 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 12 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 13 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 14 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 15 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 2 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 3 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 4 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 5 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 6 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 7 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 8 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, 9 - back pain
- Prostate cancer, hereditary, X-linked 2 - back pain
- Prostatic carcinoma
- Prostatitis - lower back pain
- Psoriasis
- Putti-Chavany syndrome - back pain
- Pyelitis
- Pyelonephritis - back pain
- Pyelonephritis, acute
- Radiculopathy
- Reflux nephropathy - back pain
- Reiter's syndrome - back pain
- Renal abscess - back pain
- Renal calculi
- Renal cancer - back pain
- Renal cancer, familial - lower back pain
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 2 - lower back pain
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 3 - lower back pain
- Renal Cell Carcinoma 4 - lower back pain
- Renal cell carcinoma, papillary, familial - lower back pain
- Renal cell carcinoma, papillary, hereditary - lower back pain
- Renal cell carcinoma, papillary, sporadic - lower back pain
- Renal colic - pain in the small of the back
- Renal pelvis and ureter, transitional cell cancer - back pain
- Renal tubular transport disorders, inborn - back pain
- Reticulosis
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis - lower back pain
- Retroperitoneal haemorrhage
- Retroperitonial neoplasm
- Retroversion of uterus
- Rheumatism - back pain
- Rib Tumor - back pain
- Rickets
- Rickettsia - Backache
- Rift Valley Fever - back pain
- Ritter syndrome - back pain
- Ruptured intervertebral disk
- Salmonella infection
- Salpingitis
- SAPHO syndrome - back pain
- Scapulocostal syndrome - back pain
- Scheuermann's disease - backache
- Sciatica - lower back pain
- Sciatica as seen in rheumatoid arthritis - lower back pain
- Scoliosis
- See also causes of lower back pain, upper back pain, or middle back pain
- Septic abortion - backache
- Seronegative spondyloarthropathy - Back pain
- Shingles
- Sickle Cell Anemia - back pain
- Sickle-cell crisis - back pain
- Slipped disc
- Soft-tissue injury
- Solitary Plasmacytoma of Bone - back pain
- Somatoform Disorders - back pain
- Spastic paraplegia 25, autosomal recessive - spine pain
- Spastic paraplegia 4, autosomal dominant - lower back pain
- Spastic pelvic floor syndrome - lower back pain
- Spinal abscess
- Spinal arthritis - back pain
- Spinal AVM - back pain
- Spinal canal tumor
- Spinal cancer
- Spinal conditions - Back pain
- Spinal Cord Disorders - Back pain
- Spinal cord injury, acute
- Spinal Cord Tumor - back pain
- Spinal disc damage
- Spinal fracture - Back pain
- Spinal hemorrhage
- Spinal neoplasm
- Spinal nerve root tumor
- Spinal osteoarthritis
- Spinal pachymeningitis
- Spinal pain and rigidity - back pain
- Spinal stenosis - back pain
- Spondylarthritis - back pain
- Spondylitis - Back pain
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda - back pain
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, autosomal dominant - back pain
- Spondylolisthesis - back or leg pain
- Spondylolysis
- Spondylosis - lower back pain
- Sports Injuries - Back pain
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome
- Stomach ulcer
- Stones - Severe back pain
- Strained back muscles
- Strained ligaments
- Stress - back ache
- Subarachnoid abscess
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Swayback - back pain
- Syphilis
- Syringomyelia - back pain
- Tarlov cysts - back pain
- Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome - lower back pain
- Threatened miscarriage
- Transfusion Reaction - Back pain
- Transitional cell carcinoma - back pain
- Transverse myelitis - lower back pain
- Transverse process fracture
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculous disease
- Tuberculous endometritis
- Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis - lower back pain
- Twisted ovarian cyst
- Type I spinal osteoporosis - back pain
- Type II Glycogen Storage Disease - Lower back pain
- Typhoid fever
- Ulcerative colitis
- Unaccustomed strain on the back
- Undulant fever
- Unhappiness
- Upper back pain
- Upper back sprain - upper back pain
- Urinary tract infection
- Urinary tract infections - back pain
- Urinary tract infections (child) - back pain
- Uterine cancer
- Uterine fibroids - low back pain
- Uterine leiomyoma - lower back pain
- Uterine tumor
- Uterus malposition
- Vaginal atresia - back pain
- Vertebral compression fracture
- Vertebral condition
- Vertebral fracture - Back pain
- Vertebral osteomyelitis
- Vertebral osteoporosis
- Vipoma - Back pain
- Viral prostatitis - low back pain
- Vitamin C Overdose - severe back pain
- Wedged verteprae
- Weil's disease
- Whiplash - back pain
- Whiplash Injuries - lower back pain
- Whipple's disease
- Xiphoid syndrome - back pain
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