• Traumatologist or surgeon  – if you have recently fallen, injured or played intensively.
• Neurologist  – with acute or shooting pain in the spine, partial loss of sensitivity and mobility, a feeling of creeping on the stomach and legs; if, with prolonged immobility or a change in body position, the pain in the spine increases.
• Gastroenterologist  – with a long pulling pain mainly on one side of the lower back; with pain accompanied by digestive disorders; if lower back pain is accompanied by weakness and fever.
• Urologist or nephrologist  – with acute pain on the one hand, as well as with mild aching pain in the lower back against the background of difficult or very frequent urination.
• Gynecologist  – for pain in the lumbar region on one or both sides, accompanied by weakness and aggravated by movement, against the background of pregnancy or menstruation.

You can postpone a visit to the doctor only if you know why the lower back hurts, and this reason does not cause concern. For example, muscle fatigue from physical work will go away in one to two days without any treatment, and you do not need to visit a traumatologist for this.

Possible diagnosis and treatment

The diagnosis your doctor prescribes depends primarily on your symptoms. First, the doctor will conduct an examination and ask about his health, on the basis of which he will be able to understand the approximate cause of the pain. Then, depending on the symptoms, it will direct you to:

• Spine X-ray  – for injuries, scoliosis and hernia. Only bone tissue is clearly visible on it, so it will be useless for other diseases.
• MRI of the lumbosacral spine  – for hernia and protrusion, neuropathy, curvature, trauma, neoplasms. This is a very accurate type of diagnosis that allows you to examine soft tissues at any depth.
• CT scan of the lumbar spine  – according to the same indications if the patient cannot undergo magnetic resonance imaging.
• Ultrasound  – if you suspect a disease of the abdominal or pelvic organs. This is a completely safe examination that can be carried out even for children, but not all pathologies can be examined on it.
• Gastroscopy and  colonoscopy  – for diseases of the digestive system. These types of examinations allow you to examine organs and immediately take tissue samples for analysis, if necessary.
• MRI of the abdominal and intestinal organs  – for a more thorough examination of the internal organs and the circulatory system.

Almost all patients who complain of back pain come with problems of the spine and back muscles. A sedentary lifestyle and heavy lifting lead to constant pain in the lower back, regardless of age. Therefore, the diagnosis will begin with an examination of the back and spinal column. Well, if no pathologies are visible on the x-ray, the doctor will refer you to an extended examination of the abdominal organs.

Many diseases that cause lower back pain are treated surgically: hernias, neoplasms, stones in the ducts, pancreatitis. In case of unbearable pain, be sure to ask your doctor about what analgesics you can take. Diseases of the spine, if they do not require surgery, are treated with anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy, exercise therapy, a balanced diet, chondroprotectors and lifestyle changes. In each case, everything is individual, so let the doctor prescribe the treatment.