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Pain and pressure in middle of my back
A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Robert Kwok answered
33 years experience Pediatrics
Depends on details: Some causes of back symptoms in young adults include: back muscle strain, back ligament sprain, fractured vertebra (spondylolysis), slipped vertebra ... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
Dr. Rifat Naghmi answered
46 years experience Internal Medicine
Back: No worries. It could be normal.
A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. John Goldman answered
55 years experience Rheumatology
May be muscular: A lot of back pain is actually muscular. There is also back arthritis, lumbar discs, inflammatory back disease etc. Your evaluation will look at a ... Read More
A 21-year-old female asked:
Dr. Thomas Dowling answered
40 years experience Orthopedic Spine Surgery
You may have a : Spine deformity like a scoliosis or kyphosis or even something called a gibbus that may be causing a muscular pain related to an imbalance of the spin ... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Luis Mojicar answered
37 years experience Family Medicine
Could be: a muscle spasm. Try warm compresses, take over the counter pain medication. If not better need to follow up with a physician.
A 29-year-old male asked:
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge answered
41 years experience Internal Medicine
Full stomach?: If you have a full stomach, or if you are badly constipated, when you lie on your stomach it will press against your aorta and into your vertebral col ... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Calvin Weisberger answered
51 years experience Cardiology
Palpitations: Palpitations have many causes from anxiety through anatomic and physiologic abnormalities. The feeling of bounding usually relates to the volume of bl ... Read More
A 36-year-old member asked:
Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
44 years experience Pathology
Communicate: Two deep measures of a person are (1) how they deal with someone who is upset, and (2) what they do when there has been a misunderstanding. Relationsh ... Read More
A 49-year-old member asked:
Dr. Heidi Fowler answered
25 years experience Psychiatry
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay answered
21 years experience Hospital-based practice
No, not broken.: If your back were "broken" (vertebral fracture), you would be in a lot of pain, & possibly a degree of paralysis or weakness. A simple "popping" s ... Read More
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