BACK PAIN Flashcards
AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM
SI JOINT PAIN - SCIATIC W HEMORRHOIDS!! - ACHING BACK W SUPPRESSED MENSES, stooping, walking < RAISING from CHAIR < BEFORE CHILL (rectum feels like FULL OF STICKS) Lameness of back on waking
ARGENTUM METALLICUM
LUMBAGO < SITTING > WALKING restricts respiration STIFFNESS WALKS BENT FORWARD starting AWAKE from ELECTRIC SHOCKS - sleepnessness from shocks
BELLADONNA
BACK PAIN - AS IF IT WOULD BREAK! / AS IF BROKEN - DURING MENSES! -
sciatica INCREASING & DECREASING SUDDENLY!
< JARRING, MOTION, MISSTEP, COUGHING
< R SIDE!
BERBERIS VULGARIS
LUMBAR- PAIN & NUMBNESS! - extends to forehead
pain is ITCHING, BURNING
pain AS IF CRUSHED
stitching pain EXTENDING AROUND TO ABDOMEN!
< lying, sitting
< rising up from sitting
CALCAREA CARBONICA
LUMBAGO - SLIGHTEST EXERTION / LIFTING - WEAK FEELING! / AS IF SPRAINED - before/during MENSES
pain EXTENDS DOWN sciatic nerve (to sole of foot)
sciatic w ATROPHY OF LIMB!
< rising from sitting
COBALTUM
BACK PAIN - LUMBAR/SACRUM/SCIATICA - ASSOC W NIGHTLY POLLUTIONS! … AFTER EMISSIONS!
> LYING, rising
< sitting
cannot straighten spine wo sharp pains shooting into foot
COLOCYNTHIS
LUMBAGO - LANCINATING PAIN ON INSPIRATION!/ON LYING
stitching pain ON MOTION
weaking IN EVENING
SCIATIC ASSOC W NUMBNESS - R - FLEXING LEG ONTO ABDOMEN!, < NIGHT, TOUCH, MOTION
LYING ON PAINFUL SIDE AMEL.!
DULCAMARA
LUMBAGO - CHANGES TO COLD WEATHER/ «_space;DAMP WEATHER! … LAMENESS AFTER TAKING COLD/GETTING WET! … AFTER STOOPING FOR LONG TIME
SCIATICA AFTER WET WEATHER!
MOTION AMEL.
> becoming warm in bed
GNAPHALIUM
- LUMBAGO w NUMBNESS! w heaviness in pelvis - R sided SCIATICA accomp. by NUMBNESS/FORMICATION … ALT W NUMBNESS!
- SCIATICA w UTERINE COMPLAINTS
> flexing limb on abd
IRIS VERSICOLOR
- SCIATICA AFTER INFLUENZA!... CRAMPING!.. L cramping in lumbar motion AGG burning of alimentary canal ropy salivation
KALI BICHROMICUM
- LUMBAGO < COUGHING PAIN WANDERS in spine stitching pain to legs NUMBNESS in lumbar - SCIATICA accomp by JERKING IN HIP increase/decrease suddenly < change of weather
KALI IODATUM
- LUMBAGO - AS IF IN A VISE: < LYING PAINFUL SIDE < walking - SCIATICA: < EVENING/NIGHT < LYING DOWN < coughing, sneezing > OPEN AIR, MUST WALK (rhus-t)
LAC CANINUM
PAIN FROM BASE OF BRAIN TO COCCYX (SPINE)
PULSATING in lumbar
- SCIATICA - ALTERNATING SIDES!! W numbness, SENSITIVE SPINE
< beg of motion (rhus-t, ruta)
fear of snakes
LEDUM PALUSTRE
- LUMBAGO: @ BEGN OF MOTION, RISING FROM SITTING
SACRAL - STIFFNESS - SCIATICA: accomp by COLDNESS of PAINFUL LIMB
» COLD
< ascending
< WARMTH!
LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
- LUMBAGO AS IF BROKEN [during stool], WOULD BREAK. PASSING URINE and FLATUS AMEL. R to L - SCIATICA > warmth > walking
MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICUM
- SCIATICA IN SUDDEN PAROXYSMS - SHOOTING PAIN - AT NIGHT - appearing and disappearing suddenly
< COLD, COLD APP
> HEAT, PRESSURE
NATRIUM MURIATICUM
- LUMBAR LAMENESS
- BACK PAIN - STOOPING FOR LONG TIME AGG
- LUMBAR - AS IF BROKEN; LYING ON HARD SURFACE AMEL.
- LUMBAGO/STIFFNESS after GRIEF/SUPPRESSED EMOTION!
- contraction of hamstrings
NUX VOMICA
SEVERE PAIN W SENSITIVITY AND ANGER
- aching back pain MUST SIT UP OR TURN OVER IN BED
- LUMBAGO w LABOR-LIKE PAIN on URGING W STOOL
- SCIATICA w chill, w contraction in legs / MADDENING, CRAMPING pain
OLEUM JECORIS
CHRONIC BACK PAIN W WASTING, EMACIATION [lower leg] - painful
- SCIATICA w ATROPHY OF AFFECTED LIMB
RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
LUMBAGO - STITCHING PAIN < AFTER EATING! … extends to Abd
SORE LAST RIB
lumbago > sit bent forward
- SCIATICA < cold/damp weather, motion
RHUS-T
STIFFNESS/IMMOBILITY W PAIN
> CONTINUED MOTION!
restlessness from pain
< BEG OF MOTION
< sitting still, cold damp, getting wet, lifting
- SCIATICA w NUMBNESS, < COLD/COLD WATER
RUTA
- LUMBAGO W STIFFNESS, LAMENESS; flatus amel, walking amel
< AFTER INJURY/STRAIN - SCIATICA - R, after injury, SHOOTING PA EXT DOWNWARD TO THIGH, HOLLOW OF KNEE
SULPHUR
SCIATICA/LUMBAGO in SEDENTARY/INTELLECTUAL TYPES
weak back, stooped shoulder
< evening, night menses, lying on L side, rising from stooping, sitting
SCIATICA < standing, walking
TELLURIUM METALLICUM
SEVERE PAIN FROM SACRUM DOWN INTO R THIGH or sciatic N.
< SNEEZING, AFTER URGING for BM, during stool, coughing, laughin
- SCIATICA < lying on painful side
DISCHARGE FROM EAR LEAVES VESICLES ON LOBE!
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
LUMBAGO
< WALKING ON UNEVEN GROUND
< jarring, menses, rising from sitting
BACK FEELS FRAGILE
BACK PAIN - AGG from standing erect after sitting for long time
LUMBAR VERT SORE < STEPPING
(secretive, warts, avoids exposing themselves)
VALERIANA
BACK PAIN LUMBAR AS IF SPRAINED - AGG SITTING - extending above hips on standing or sitting < standing w both feet flat on ground - SCIATICA W INSOMNIA - DRAWING PAIN IN EXTREMETIES - PAIN IN ANKLES on running upstairs
