Glossary for Back conditions

• All Disease Categories: All major disease categories
• Back Impairment: An impairment of the function of the back
• Back pain: Pain from the back or spine.
• Bladder symptoms: Symptoms related to the bladder and urination.
• Digestive symptoms: Any symptoms affecting the digestive tract.
• Disc Disorders: Disorders that affect the discs of the spine
• Herniated disc: A misaligned or "slipped" disc in the spine.
• Lordosis: Spinal curvature forward in the lower back
• Lumbago: Back pain in the small of the back
• Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition characterised by mechanical disrturbances due to degradation of joints. It is the most common form of arthritis, and the leading cause of chronic disability.
• Osteoporosis: Bone thinning and weakening from bone calcium depletion.
• Pain: A feeling of suffering, agony, distress caused by the stimulation of pain fibres in the nervous system
• Reiter’s syndrome: A form of reactive arthritis characterized by arthritis, urethritis, conjunctivitis and skin lesions.
• Sciatica: Sciatica is a set of symptoms including pain that may be caused by general compression and/or irritation of one of five nerve roots that give rise to the sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve itself.
• Spina bifida: A birth defect where the spinal vertebrae do not completely enclose the spinal cord often resulting in various degrees of nerve damage.
• Spinal conditions: Any condition that affects the spine
• Spinal cord injury: Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord as a result of a direct trauma to the spinal cord itself or as a result of indirect damage to the bones and soft tissues and vessels surrounding the spinal cord.
• Tingling: Tingling, prickling, or pins-and-needles sensations
• Tuberculosis: Bacterial infection causing nodules forming, most commonly in the lung.
• Weakness: Symptoms causing weakness of the body

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