Man With Back Pain

A 50-year-old man with chronic low back pain.

Mr S, a 50-year-old man, has long-standing low back pain. His pain began more than 20 years earlier with a lumbar disk herniation and has persisted despite diskectomy. He has undergone numerous treatments, but he remains disabled with ongoing pain. His treatment course is used to frame the epidemiology and pathophysiology underlying acute and chronic lumbosacral and radicular pain. The roles of...

A 46-year-old man with acute low-back pain.

A 50 Year Old Man with Fever and Abdominal Pain

The patient is a 50-year-old man who has been diagnosed with abdominal pain, fever, shivering and constipation with nausea and vomiting with a possible diagnosis of typhoid. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis was performed by injection of contrast agent for the patient. What is your diagnosis?

A comparative study of trunk proprioception between patients with chronic non-specific low back pain and discopathic low back pain

Introduction: Low back pain is one of the most common disorders in modern society. Disturbed properioception can be a possible cause of low back pain and can cause recurrence of low back pain. Previous studies have shown that low back pain reduces proprioception due to instability in the low back. Since the degenerative process of disc herniation is one of the important factors in exacerbating ...

A man with abdominal pain.

A 40 year old man presented with intermittent, dull aching abdominal pain of six months’ duration. His appetite was good; there was mild weight loss. On examination he was moderately nourished; there were no peripheral palpable lymph nodes. Abdominal examination revealed a tense cystic smooth surfaced, nontender retroperitoneal swelling (20 6 10 cm) in left iliac fossa extending into lumbar and...