Back Pain Red Flags

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If your massage patient has back pain (upper or lower) related to any of the following, refer them to a medical specialist.
• Younger than 20 or older than 55 and getting back pain for the first time.
• Pain after a violent injury, e.g. road traffic accident.
• Pain is constant and getting worse.
• Pain is in the upper part of the spine.
• Cancer in the past or at present.
• Taking (Cortico)steroids.
• Drug abuser, or HIV infected.
• Generally unwell or feverish.
• Significant weight loss.
• Continue to have great difficulty bending forwards.
• Nerve related problems other than pain: loss of sensation (especially of the area that would sit on a saddle - so called saddle anaesthesia), loss of power, urinary or bowel incontinence.
• Obvious structural deformity of your spine.
• Debilitating pain that is not reducing after 4 -6 weeks.

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