- Maybe tenderness to palpation of paraspinous muscles
- If midline tenderness over spine, NOT focal to a single vertebra
- No bony tenderness to percussion
- Normal motor strength bilat. legs
- No dermatomal paresthesias
- Negative Straight Leg Raise
- <65; and/or
- Pain not increased with ambulation & then relieved by bending forward
See posting Back Pain & Neck Pain.