Hello, I am a 31 year woman living in Kolkata, India for the past 2 years. I have been running for 40 minutes on a treadmill for 3 to 4 days a week. However, increasingly, I have developed a pain at my lower back.  I want to continue running and exercising, but would like to know whats the best way to proceed now. How do I take care of my lower back pain, without having to give up running?
Welcome to Chat Doctor I have gone through your query and understand your concern. Your backache can be due to your weakness of muscles and vitamin and trace elements deficiency. You can additionally do back exercises and take multivitamins and trace elements supplements. You can also get your vitamin D level as vitamin D deficiency is important cause of backache, if found low then supplements of vitamin D3 can be taken. Furthermore, you can further investigation for your backache by MRI of lumbar spine. You can continue running on treadmill wearing lumbosacral belt so that there is no backache. You can discuss with your doctor about it. Hope your query get answered. If you have any clarification then don't hesitate to write to us. I will be happy to help you. Wishing you a good health. Take care.