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Lower left back pain after my my body hit a tree during mtb. how can we know if its just muscle spasm or spinal injury?
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Severity of symptoms: Spinal cord inj usually have dramatic findings and often in volve the lower extremity in the situation you mentioned.
Answered 3/26/2013
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X-ray: You have to go to the doctor and check it out, he will take an x-ray and find out.
Answered 1/15/2013
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