Nociceptive Pain

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  • Nociceptive Pain:
    • ‘Nociceptive back pain is pain that is evoked by noxious stimulation to any structure in spine’ (Bogduk, 2009)
    • Could be a noxious stimuli to any structure in the lumbar spine:
    • Can cause low back pain
    • With or without referred pain
    • And/or other signs and symptoms
    • Example: OA/spondylosis, facet joint strain, mild/low levels of IDD or Disc Bulge with no neuro (chemical irritation from associated inflammation)
    • referred pain / signs and symptoms depend on which structures are affected - if its gone all the way to affect the nerve/nerve root