Diagnosing Back Pain.

BACKACHE diagnosis; MEDICAL consultation; HISTORY of medicine; PERIODIC health examinations; CLINICAL pathology

The article focuses on the diagnosis of back pain. It highlights the importance of the accuracy of describing the pain, along with some of the questions doctors often asked to determine the required treatment for the pain such as the pain's location, its severity, and other health problems experience by the patient. Also discussed are other methods used by doctors to diagnose back pain, including physical examination, laboratory tests, and imaging studies.