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I an suffering from lower back pain for over a week now and it's difficult to even sit walk or stand what can help me?
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Benign or serious: Low back pain is very frustrating. If this is your first episode then you always need to make sure it is not something serious (metastatic cancer to the spine, infection). Most back pain is musculoskeletal and harmless and 90% resolves by 6 weeks. It is important to stay active and to see your pmd to make sure it is not something more serious. Motrin in the mean time, .
Answered 8/13/2015
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