Lower back Pain - Celebrity Sufferers

Feeling alone with your lower back pain? Dont....! The world is full of back pain sufferers ranging from sports stars to couch potatoes. Here are some of the more famous names you may have come across....

Carolina Panthers Quaterback Vinny Testaverde may not be able to start against New Orleons after waking up with a stiff back.

The Queen - The most famous of all back pain sufferers ( well...in the UK anyway!) She had to cancel some engagements in 2007 because her back was troubling her.

Chelsea Football Clubs Defender Ricardo Carvalho is undergoing a scan on a back injury picked up at the weekend.

Kieron Richardson playing for Sunderland Football Club has a stress fracture of the low back called a spondylolisis. No return date for him yet.

Arsenal FC have been without Philippe Senderos since mid October because of a back injury.

Stephen Jackson, the brilliant running back for the St Louis Rams had to pull out of the game against the Browns in November with a bulging disc. The good news is that he is fit to play again and should be back for the next match but the team plan on limiting his carries and giving him more rest time.

Brian Urlacher, the Chicago Bears linebacker, has longstanding arthritic back pain which he says limits his play - but the team coach says this doesn't explain his inconsistency this season!

Detroit Women's Basketball Swin Cash had a herniated disk in Sept , which caused pain to shoot down her leg. She continued to play to the end of the series however although she said that at times she felt a bit nervous about it. She was planning on taking 6 weeks off and seeing how she felt.(source ESPN).

Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan aggravated his old back pain in August while filming his latest film The Forbidden Kingdom. Chan says in his blog that he aggravated his back pain when filming sequences that required him to throw someone upward! (source Official Jackie Chan website).

San Diego Padres - Chris Young -Young missed his start in August in Philadelphia after experiencing tightness in his lower back. An MRI showed no structural damage to his back, only inflammation (source MLB website)

Oakland Athletics-Mark Kotsay - the centre fielder had lower back pain in August that interfered with his play for two weeks (source contracostatimes website)

Chicago - White Sox - Joe Crede has had back problems on and off since 2005 but worsening symptoms forced him off the field in May (source the couriernews website).

Tour de France - Robbie McEwen- crashed after 20k in the first stage of the Tour de France in July but despite back pain rode on to win the stage.

British hurdler Sally Gunnell talked to the Daily Mail in the summer about her long struggle with back pain that lasted throughout her career and worsened after she had children (source Daily Mail online)

Motor Racing BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld- experienced back pain which caused him to pull out of practice for the French Grand Prix in the summer. He was off to get some back pain investigations to see what is was that was causing the pain (source Guardian Unlimited online).

Honda's Jenson Button missed testing at Jerez in June due to back pain (source homeofsport website)

England - Ex England rugby player Kyran Bracken talked in May 2007 about the recurrent back problems that caused him no end of problems with his career and caused him to miss out on several major tournaments (source Daily Mail)

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