- Limited mobility due to severe muscle spasms and pain which can cause missed days at work.
- Sleep disturbances due to constant pain.
- Depression: Due to less mobility, it can affect your social and work life.
- Weight gain: Backache causes a loss of activity and restricts movement leading to weight gain and obesity.
Visit your doctor immediately, if you have following "Red flags" symptoms:
- Backache with chest pain
- Being unable to move a part of the body
- Severe backache with weakness, tingling, or numbness in the arms or legs
- Difficulty in controlling urine
- Loss of bowel control
- Backache with fever
- Chronic back pain that has increased suddenly
- Pain wakes you up from sleep
