Understanding Low Back Pain Anatomical Chart

Using the latest low back pain guidelines from the American Pain Society (APS) and the American College of Physicians (ACP), this visual and textual overview explains the types, causes and risk factors, signs and symptoms, treatment and management, and prevention of low back pain. This chart illustrates a human figure (posterior view) with pain radiating into the leg and numbness and tingling in the leg; sagittal view of lower spine with tumor of the spinal cord, bone spur impinging on spinal nerves, compression fractures and herniated disc impinging on spinal nerve; anterior view of the lower spine and pelvis showing tumors, infections, degenerative diseases, ankylosing spondylitis, sacroiliitis, arthritis, and intrapelvic mass; and correct postures and techniques to avoid low back pain.