HealthPhoto: HT HealthGastroenterologist Explains Link Between Constipation and Lower Back Pain
Dr. Santhosh Rajendran, a gastroenterologist at SIMS Hospital, Chennai, explains that constipation can indirectly cause lower back pain through referred visceral pain. Straining during constipation may lead to colonic distension, which affects nerves in the thoracic and sacral spinal regions, causing pain that feels like it originates in the lower back. However, having both symptoms does not always mean one causes the other.
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