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Severe lower back pain
Kindly see the MRI report and suggest me treatment for my cousin, he is just wasting money on painkillers and it getting it cured. I want that it goes away completely and he lives a happy life.
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Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory condition effecting primarily the spine. The joints cause pain and gradually there is tendency fir bony fusion if adjacent bones causing stiffness.
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Few days of anti inflammatory medicines like Indomethacin twice a day guves releif. Further tests beeds to be done to prove the diagnosis. The mainstay if treatment remains active exercises and mibilization
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