Low Back Pain

Low back pain is a common condition and affects up to 80% of the Singaporean adult population.

It may result due to weakened or overstretched muscles, joints and ligaments.

Other causes include:

• Slipped disc possibly from a sports injury (Figure 1)
• Degenerative diseases affecting the spine
• Fracture (Figure 2)
• Infection (Figure 3)
• Tumour in the spine (Figure 4)

Figure 1 Slipped disc (Left) Figure 2 Spine fracture (Right)

Figure 3 Spine infection (Left) Figure 4 Tumour in the spine (Right)