Template:Low Back Pain Red Flags
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Red Flags
- History of: Trauma, sports injury, fever, night sweats, recent surgery, catheterisation, venipuncture, illicit drug use, weight loss, cancer, occupational exposure, hobby exposure, overseas travel, pain severe worsening or unremitting especially at night
- Cardiovascular: Risk factors
- Respiratory: Cough in a smoker or ex-smoker
- Gentio-urinary: Infection, haematuria, retention, stream problems
- Gynaecological: abnormal uterine bleeding, dysmenorrhoea
- Haematological
- Endocrine: Diabetes, corticosteroids, parathyroid
- Musculoskeletal: pain elsewhere
- Neurologic: symptoms/signs including for cauda equina compression
- Skin: Infection, rashes
- Gastrointestinal: Diarrhoea, inflammatory bowel disease
- Demographic: Aged over 50 years with first episode, especially age over 65 years
