Non-traumatic Low Back Pain: Five Case Reports and Al Wakra Recommendations

Author(s): Islam Hussam Elrobaa, Hani Hamad Aldulimi, Muayad Kasim Khalid, Elfadel Hamad Dafalla, Abdulhadi Haider Khan, Bassam Adel Fathi, Mohamed Abu Elgasem Mgaram, Helmy Gouda Elhag, Nashat Nabil Ali, His

Low back pain (LBP) is the fifth most common reason for visiting a physician [1, 2]. Although non-traumatic LBP is benign, and self-limited in most cases, it occasionally indicates a serious disease. Emergency physician must able to distinguish between patients with benign non-traumatic LBP requiring merely history taking and physical examination and identify those with LBP indicative of a serious illness. In this article, we have discussed five such cases and have proposed some clinical recommendations to manage nontraumatic LBP to avoid missing the loss of diagnosis of a serious disease.