Having Back Pain. Using Ice Pack Constantly. Help?

Posted on Fri, 23 Aug 2013

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Question : my wife has been having heat to back using ice packs constantly leaving her bed ,and constantly hot no dr has been able to help please help her we live in southern md

Answered by Dr. Dr. Shruti Rijhwani (-4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Spine needs to be examined.

Detailed Answer:
Dear sir,

Thank you for posting your query on XXXXXXX

Well looking into your problem it will be very difficult to diagnose the exact cause . Your wifes back need to be physically examined and exact location of pain needs to be determined .

An X XXXXXXX spine needs to done to look for osteoporosis , fracture of spine . If needed MRI spine can be required .

Till then she can take a pain killer as recommended by her treating doctor .

Take care.

Dr. Shruti

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar