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What Causes Severe Backache?

my mother age is 60+ she had back pain from last year ....Some days before we x-ray her l.s spine ap & lat view ....found bones are osteopenic. there is slight scoliotic deformity Is noted. intervertebral disc space is reduce at L1-L-3, L2-L-3,L3-L4, & L-5S1 level. marginal osteophytes are noted at multiple levels. vertebrae are normal in height.
Fri, 14 Jul 2017
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Good day and thank you for posting this question. One of the risk factor for osteopenia that you Mummy has is her age (60+) and Menopause. Other thing that could increase her risk is if she smokes, take alcohol, some drugs like furosemide lithium. And sometimes a cause might not be found.
I hope it helps.
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What Causes Severe Backache?

Good day and thank you for posting this question. One of the risk factor for osteopenia that you Mummy has is her age (60+) and Menopause. Other thing that could increase her risk is if she smokes, take alcohol, some drugs like furosemide lithium. And sometimes a cause might not be found. I hope it helps. Thank you.