| CATEGORY | Diseases of the Skeletal System |
| SYSTEM | Skeletal System |
| ORGAN | Spine, Vertebrae |
| ALTERNATE NAMES/COMMON NAMES | Low Back pain, Lumbago |
| NAMES IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES |
Hindi- Pith dard, kamar dard French- mal au dos Spanish- dolor de espalda |
| ICD 10 CLASSIFICATION | M54.5 |
| WORLD STATISTICS |
Back pain affects 8 out of 10 people at some point during their lives. National Institute of Health Statistics survey indicated that low back pain was the most common (27%), followed by severe headache or migraine pain (15%), neck pain (15%) and facial ache or pain (4%). |
| INDIAN STATISTICS |
In India, nearly 60 percent of the people have significant back pain at some time or the other in their life.. Backache is more common in Indian women (52.9%) than men (28.4%) |
| MOST PREVALENT IN | Worldwide prevalence |
