About 20 percent of people with psoriatic arthritis will experience pain in the lower back.
Symptoms of arthritis in lower back and hips uk.
The low back pain due to facet joint arthritis has a typical pattern.
The pain is mostly more than 80 in the back runs into the buttocks and often really feels like it s in the hip.
Normally the lumbar joints are cushioned by gel filled discs and protected by an outer covering of cartilage.
However arthritis can cause cartilage to wear down and.
The doctor will take a medical history and perform a physical exam to see if the person has pain tenderness loss of motion involving the neck or lower back or if symptoms are suggestive signs.
In some cases bony overgrowth can actually cause the vertebrae in your back to fuse together.