The low back pain due to facet joint arthritis has a typical pattern.
Symptoms of arthritis in lower back and hips uk.
In some cases bony overgrowth can actually cause the vertebrae in your back to fuse together.
The hip a ball and socket joint is created where the top of the thigh bone a ball shaped structure known as the femoral head sits in a socket of the pelvic bone called the acetabulum.
However arthritis can cause cartilage to wear down and.
The pain is mostly more than 80 in the back runs into the buttocks and often really feels like it s in the hip.
Normally the lumbar joints are cushioned by gel filled discs and protected by an outer covering of cartilage.
Lower back arthritis sometimes called lumbar spine arthritis or lumbar facet joint arthritis causes pain and stiffness in the joints called facet joints of the lower back and inflammation of the surrounding tissues 1 2.