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Causes of Back pain

This section discusses 464 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:

- (Source - Diseases Database)

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Back pain:

The following list of conditions have 'Back pain' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

A

  • Abdominal aortic aneurysm ... back pain
  • Acute bacterial prostatitis ... low back pain, pain in the lower back
  • Acute idiopathic polyneuritis ... back pain
  • Acute intermittent porphyria ... back pain
  • Addison's Disease ... back pain
  • Addisonian crisis ... back pain
  • Adenocarcinoma, Clear Cell ... backache
  • Adenosarcoma of the uterus ... back pain
  • Albers-Schonberg disease - Adult benign dominant form ... spinal pain
  • Alternating Bowel Habit IBS ... Backache
  • Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage ... back pain
  • Angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia ... back pain
  • Ankylosing spondylarthritis ... spinal pain, back pain
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis ... lower back pain
  • Aorta conditions ... Back pain
  • 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
  • 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

    B

  • Back injuries ... back pain
  • Back pain ... back pain
  • Back sprain ... back pain
  • Back tumour ... 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
  • Breakdance back syndrome ... lower back pain
  • Bright's Disease ... backache
  • Brucellosis ... back pains
  • Bwamba virus ... backache

    C

  • 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
  • Chiari-Frommel syndrome ... backache
  • Chikungunya ... backache
  • Chlamydia ... lower back pain, lower back pain worse during menstruation
  • Cholecystitis ... back pain
  • Chondrodysplasia, type Nance-Sweeney ... back pain
  • Chordoma ... back pain
  • Chromophil renal cell carcinoma ... back pain
  • Chromophobe renal cell carcinoma ... back pain
  • Chronic Pancreatitis ... Back pain
  • Clear cell renal cell carcinoma ... back pain
  • Collecting duct carcinoma ... back pain
  • Colorectal Polyps ... lower back pain
  • Combat stress reaction ... backache
  • Congenital bronchogenic cyst ... back pain
  • Constipation-predominant IBS ... Backache
  • Copper toxicity ... lower back pain
  • Cushing's syndrome ... backaches

    D

  • Danubian endemic familial nephropathy ... lower back pain
  • Degenerative Disc Disease ... upper back pain, lower back pain
  • 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
  • Disc Disorders ... Back pain
  • Discitis ... back pain
  • Dressler (D.)syndrome ... back pain
  • Dysthymia ... backaches

    E

  • EGE ... back pain
  • Endometrial stromal sarcoma ... back pain
  • Endometriosis ... lower back pain
  • Eosinophilic enteropathy, pattern II ... back pain
  • Ependymoma ... back pain
  • Esophageal carcinoma ... back pain
  • Esophageal disorder ... back pain
  • Esophagus Cancer ... Back pain

    F

  • Facet syndrome ... back pain
  • Familial renal cell carcinoma ... lower back pain
  • Fibrocartilaginous embolism ... back pain
  • Filaminopathy, autosomal dominant ... lower back pain
  • Foix-Alajouanine syndrome ... lower back pain

    G

  • Gallstones ... back pain
  • Glassy cell carcinoma of the cervix ... back pain
  • Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency ... back pain
  • Glycogen storage disease type 2 ... lower back pain
  • Glycogenosis type 2 ... lower back pain
  • Glénard syndrome ... backache
  • Guillain-Barre Syndrome ... back pain

    H

  • Hantavirosis ... backache
  • Heart attack ... back discomfort, back pain
  • Hemorragic fever with renal syndrome ... back pain
  • Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer ... lower back pain
  • Herniated disc ... back pain worse with movement, back pain worse with coughing, sudden back pain when twisting, lower back pain, back pain worse with laughing, back pain worse with sneezing, back pain, back pain worse with fecal straining, sudden back pain when bending
  • Hip cancer ... back pain
  • Hip conditions ... Back pain
  • Hip injury ... Back pain
  • Hip Replacement ... Back pain
  • Hypophosphatemic rickets ... back pain

    I

  • Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia ... back pain
  • Infective endocarditis ... back pain
  • Inheritable disorders of connective tissue ... Back pain
  • Intercostal neuralgia ... left sided back pain
  • Intervertebral disc disease ... back pain

    J

  • Juvenile osteoporosis ... lower back pain

    K

  • Kidney Cancer ... pain in lower back, lower back pain

    L

  • Labor Pain ... back pain
  • Lassa fever ... back pain
  • Lateral meningocele syndrome ... back pain
  • Leukemia, mast-cell ... lower back pain
  • Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2H ... back pain
  • Listeriosis of pregnancy ... back pain
  • Liver cancer ... abdominal pain extends to back and shoulder
  • Lower back sprain ... lower back pain
  • Lumbago ... back pain worse with movement, back pain relieved by rest, pain in the small of the back

    M

  • Malignant mixed Mullerian tumor ... back pain
  • Marchiafava-Micheli disease ... lumbar pain
  • Mesothelioma, adult malignant ... back pain
  • Mesothelioma, adult malignant - pleural ... back pain
  • MN1 ... back pain
  • Multifocal fibrosclerosis ... lower back pain
  • Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia ... back pain
  • Multiple Myeloma ... back pain
  • Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle, autosomal recessive, type 2H ... back pain
  • Myelitis ... Back pain
  • Myopathy, X-linked with postural muscle atrophy ... back pain

    N

  • Neck conditions ... Back pain
  • Neck injury ... Back pain
  • Nerve sheath neoplasm ... back pain
  • Neuroectodermal tumors primitive ... back pain
  • Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix ... backache
  • Non functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor ... back pain

    O

  • Occult spinal dysraphism ... low back pain
  • Occupational vibrational exposure ... back pain
  • Oophoritis ... lower back pain
  • Opioid withdrawal ... back ache
  • OSMED, Homozygous ... back pain
  • Osteomyelitis ... back pain worse with movement, back pain not relieved by rest, back pain not relieved by simple analgesics
  • Osteoporosis ... backache
  • 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

    P

  • 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 ... lumbar pain, back pain
  • Polycystic kidney disease, infantile type ... back pain
  • Polycystic kidney disease, type 2 ... lumbar pain, back pain
  • Polymyalgia rheumatica ... lower back pain, 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 ... low back pain, lower back pain, lower back pain, pain in the lower back
  • Putti-Chavany syndrome ... back pain
  • Pyelonephritis ... back pain

    R

  • Reiter’s syndrome ... back pain
  • Renal abscess ... back pain
  • 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
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis ... lower back pain
  • Rheumatism ... back pain
  • Rib Tumor ... back pain
  • Rickettsia ... Backache
  • Rift Valley Fever ... back pain
  • Ritter syndrome ... back pain

    S

  • SAPHO syndrome ... back pain
  • Scapulocostal syndrome ... back pain
  • Scheuermann's disease ... backache
  • Sciatica ... lower back pain, back pain
  • Septic abortion ... backache
  • Seronegative spondyloarthropathy ... Back pain
  • Sickle cell crisis ... back pain
  • 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 Arthritis ... back pain
  • Spinal AVM ... back pain
  • Spinal conditions ... Back pain
  • Spinal Cord Disorders ... Back pain
  • Spinal Cord Tumor ... back pain
  • Spinal fracture ... Back pain
  • Spinal stenosis ... back pain
  • Spondylarthritis ... back pain
  • Spondylitis ... Back pain
  • Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, autosomal dominant ... back pain
  • Spondylolisthesis ... back or leg pain
  • Spondylosis ... lower back pain, lumbar pain
  • Sports Injuries ... Back pain
  • Stress ... back ache
  • Swayback ... back pain
  • Syringomyelia ... back pain

    T

  • Tarlov cysts ... back pain
  • Tethered Spinal Cord Syndrome ... lower back pain
  • Transfusion Reaction ... Back pain
  • Transitional cell carcinoma ... back pain
  • Transverse myelitis ... lower back pain, back pain
  • Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis ... lower back pain
  • Type I spinal osteoporosis ... back pain

    U

  • Upper back sprain ... upper back pain
  • Urinary tract infections ... back pain
  • Urinary tract infections (child) ... back pain
  • Uterine fibroids ... low back pain

    V

  • Vaginal atresia ... back pain
  • Vertebral fracture ... Back pain
  • Vipoma ... Back pain
  • Viral prostatitis ... low back pain
  • Vitamin C Overdose ... severe back pain

    W

  • Whiplash ... back pain
  • Whiplash Injuries ... lower back pain

    X

  • Xiphoid syndrome ... back discomfort, back pain

    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. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

    C

  • Chat room addiction ... back aches
  • Computer addiction ... back aches

    G

  • Gaming addiction ... back aches

    S

  • Sickle Cell Anemia ... back pain
  • Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda ... back pain

    More Information About Back pain

    List of 464 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.

    Drug side effect causes of Back pain

    The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Back pain as a side effect.

    [See detailed list of 253 drug side effect causes of Back pain]

    Medical Textbooks about Back pain

    Free online access to excerpts without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Back pain. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Back pain (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).

    Medical Books Excerpts
    • BACK PAIN
    • "Algorithmic Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs" (2003)
    • Back Pain
    • "In A Page: Pediatric Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
    • Back pain
    • "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
    • Back Pain
    • "A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis" (1999)
    • Back pain
    • "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
    • Low Back Pain
    • "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
    • Back pain
    • "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
    • Back pain
    • "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
    • Back Pain
    • "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
    • Back pain
    • "Nursing: Interpreting Signs and Symptoms" (2007)
     

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