Call Your Doctor During Weekday Office Hours If

• You have other questions or concerns
• Back pain lasts more than 2 weeks
• Back pain is a recurrent, ongoing problem
• Over 50 years old and you have not experienced similar back pain previously
• Back pain lasts more than 3 days and it interferes with normal activities or awakens you from sleep
• Pain radiates (shoots, spreads) into the thigh or down a leg