Chronic low back pain with lower limb numbness

Lumbar spondylolisthesis is prone to cause chronic low back pain and radiation numbness pain in one or both lower limbs. Lumbar spondylolisthesis refers to a disease in which some or all of the lumbar vertebrae are misaligned. It is generally called clinically the vertebrae, and the upper vertebrae are usually slipped forward. The incidence of lumbar spondylolisthesis is 3 to 7% in Europe. There is still no accurate statistical data in China. It is generally believed that routine X-ray examination of patients with low back pain finds that about 5% of adults have a tendency to suffer from lumbar spondylolisthesis.

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