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Mechanical

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The characteristics of the pain are:

  • worse with movement
  • worse after prolonged standing or sitting
  • often chronic and relatively mild

The causes include:

  • spondylosis
  • apophyseal osteoarthritis
  • vertebral hyperostosis
  • congenital abnormalities
  • idiopathic

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