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Lower back pain is incredibly common in the human population. An estimated 80% of people will suffer from lower back pain at some point in their life. That means that if you think of ten people you know, eight of them will at some point experience the discomfort and inconvenience of lower back pain. Lower back pain is even said to be the cause of more days of sick leave than any other medical ailment.

Lower back pain, or lumbago, describes the condition of having pain for an extended period of time, at some point in their lower back. Lower back pain can strike from the very end of the spine, at the coccyx or it can affect the sacroiliac joint.

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An aching back can have many people reaching for a heating pad, ice pack or a phone to call the doctor.

Lower back pain is the No. 2 reason people call their doctor, behind colds and flu. Most need not worry. Typically, it’s a combination of the natural aging process and a strain or a sprain that causes the pain.

Unless the pain is radiating down the leg or there is numbness, tingling or weakness, “symptoms go away in a couple days without doing much of anything,” said Dr. Mark A. Knaub, director of the Orthopaedic Spine Service at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

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