Non-Spondylogenic Low Back Pain

ackache is a remarkably common condition, hardly if ever one will not get some sort of back pain in his life. It is estimated that 60-90% of the adult population have experienced low back pain. 2-5% affected on a yearly basis, 10-20% of female manifested back pain during menstrual period 1 . There are a list of causes for back pain, with wide range of classifications, but one point should not be forgotten and that is the cause of back pain is not always related to the pain sensitive structure in the spine. Some of the pain are referred to the posterior portion of the spinal segment, that innervates the diseased organs of the pelvis, abdomen or thorax. So pain arise in the back may be referred to other parts and pain in the back may be related to other anatomical structure. The differentiation between the two sources of pain is of vital importance in clinical practice. The reason behind writing this article is to stress the importance of the nonspondylogenic causes of low back pain and to suggest a new classification for low back pain.