Hi, I have extremely bad back pains which is making my arms quite sore too. It s been very hard to get out of bed the last couple of days and the pain is getting so intense that it wakes me up and I can t get back to sleep. It gets worse when I sit upright and it cause loss of feeling in my legs when the pains at its worse. I m 23 years old and it s been this way for three days after I had an accident at work hitting my back. Can any body tell me what the problem may be?
Dear patient It seems you have met with serious accident to your back and your symptoms suggest significant trauma to your back. Back pain even with rest and increases with sitting indicates vertebral trauma and either compression or fracture. Kindly get yourself investigated for radiograph of lumbosacral spine anteroposterior and lateral views. I would also like to advise MRI of spine to rule out disc problem.