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Fever, fatigue, muscle aches, loss of taste and smell – these are the most common symptoms of the coronavirus. A large proportion of patients also complain of back pain. It may be up to 15 percent. people infected with COVID-19. Doctors most often explain back pain by the body’s defensive reaction to a coronavirus infection.
- Back pain may be one symptom of coronavirus infection
- A Chinese study showed that this may be up to 15 percent. patients
- Increasingly, vaccinated people who contracted COVID-19 are talking about severe back pain that appeared during the disease
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More and more patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus complain of back pain, especially in the lower part. This ailment has rarely been mentioned among the most common symptoms of the coronavirus recently, and it is one of the symptoms reported earlier by the World Health Organization.
In February last year, WHO analyzed 56 thousand. COVID-19 cases from China. Research has shown that 15 percent. patients experience back pain.
Bożena Janicka, president of the Alliance of Healthcare Employers, spoke about not ignoring similar symptoms. – They are often very strong pains in the muscles, calves, back, in the area of the shoulder blades (patients describe it as if pieces of their body were torn out) – she emphasized.
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More and more people who are fully vaccinated have been suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks. One of the telltale symptoms they experience is back pain. In an interview with Medonet, Marcelina said: – I am rubbing because my back hurts terribly. I called the doctor because it felt like someone was tearing the skin off my back and I had to save myself. I smeared myself with everything I could, it eased the pain a little. I had such a backache for the first time in my life.
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Kasia had similar ailments, who also fell ill after vaccination: – The first symptom was back pain, resembling root pain. After that, my condition worsened by the hour. I was fine, and then more symptoms started to appear. Everything started to hurt, my whole body, bones, and a headache. The pain was such that I thought it was pneumonia, it stung under the shoulder blade – she told Medonet.
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COVID-19 symptoms. Why does your back hurt?
A study last year by Dr.Natalie Lambert of the Indiana University School of Medicine found that upper, middle, and lower back pain were often among the long-term effects of coronavirus infection. In some people, the ailment continued even six months after the infection.
Back pain in the official list of COVID-19 symptoms usually occurs along with muscle pain. Most often, back pain is described by patients as spasms of the back muscles.
– COVID-19, like other viruses, causes systemic symptoms – orthopedist Marcus Duda explained in an interview with the Prevention service.
– As with the flu, COVID-19 can cause pain throughout the body. Back and leg pain is caused by the body’s inflammatory response to the virus, and this is how our immune system responds. Viral infections such as COVID-19 cause tremors, chills, body aches and difficulty moving, explained Duda.
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