Acute low-back-pain guide

Acute low-back-pain treatment online in Virginia and West Virginia

Short-course non-opioid treatment for a recent uncomplicated strain only after every cauda-equina, infection, fracture, cancer, vascular, pregnancy, and medication-risk answer is negative.

Start online

Start a $59 online review for Acute low back pain.

Most recent low-back strains improve with movement, time, and short-course symptom treatment. Online care is appropriate only when the history is uncomplicated: any bowel, bladder, groin-numbness, weakness, fever, trauma, cancer, vascular, pregnancy, or prolonged-duration warning sign is a non-bypassable stop.

If treatment is appropriate, your physician can send a non-controlled prescription to your pharmacy and provide portal instructions for the next step.

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Quick facts

You must be physically located in Virginia or West Virginia at the time of request.
Starts at $59
No insurance needed
No app download
Physician review around the clock
Non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy when appropriate
A work or school note can be included when medically appropriate
Response times apply 24/7, every day

Common symptoms

Aching across the lower back after lifting or an awkward movement
Pain that began within the last six weeks
Muscle tightness or spasm without progressive weakness
Pain that still allows safe walking and normal bladder and bowel control

May fit online care

Adults & children 12+ (with a parent or legal guardian)
A recent lifting, overuse, or awkward-movement strain
Symptoms have lasted no more than six weeks
No bladder, bowel, saddle-numbness, weakness, fever, trauma, cancer, or vascular warning sign
Not pregnant and no NSAID contraindication

Look for another care setting

New loss of bladder/bowel control, inability to urinate, saddle numbness, or leg weakness
Fever, IV drug use, immune suppression, recent bloodstream infection, or spinal procedure
Trauma, osteoporosis, chronic steroids, cancer history, weight loss, or night/rest pain
Severe abdominal/chest pain, fainting, pulsating abdomen, age 70+ with new severe pain, pregnancy, or symptoms over six weeks

What to have ready

When and how the pain started and whether it travels into a leg
Answers to every neurologic, infection, fracture, cancer, and vascular screen
Pregnancy status and NSAID safety history
Current medicines, allergies, and ability to avoid driving if a muscle relaxant is used

What happens next

Standard

$59

Within 6 hours

Priority

$99

Within 3 hours

Rush

$149

Within 1 hour

Start the request on the website, answer a few questions to check that this visit fits you, and choose how fast you want an answer (the response window). If your concern still fits this service, a physician reviews it and sends you a secure update after you sign in. When appropriate, non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy, and a basic work or school note can be included at physician discretion.

Your physician

Every visit is personally reviewed by Ankur Fadia, MD. He is board-certified, has extra training in heart care (a cardiology fellowship), and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha, a medical honor society. He is licensed in Virginia and West Virginia, and your care is never handed off to someone else.

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What medicines may be prescribed?

A physician may choose ibuprofen or naproxen with food, plus a short 5 to 7 day course of a non-controlled muscle relaxant (methocarbamol or cyclobenzaprine; non-controlled means it has no special legal limits) when appropriate. Muscle relaxants can cause marked drowsiness (make you very sleepy), so do not drive, use machines, work at heights, drink alcohol, or take other sedatives (medicines that make you sleepy) until you know how it affects you.

Can this visit prescribe tramadol or an opioid?

No. QuickVisitMD never prescribes tramadol, opioids, or any controlled pain medication through this visit. A request for one of those stops the online pathway.

When is back pain an emergency?

Go to the emergency department now for new bladder or bowel loss, inability to urinate, saddle-area numbness, progressive leg weakness, severe abdominal or chest pain, fainting, or a pulsating abdomen. Fever with immune suppression, IV drug use, recent bloodstream infection, or a spinal procedure also needs same-day emergency evaluation.

Do you also need a short work or school note?

The medical treatment visit and documentation request are separate. If you need a basic note for up to five days and the request fits that visit's timing and purpose limits, use the dedicated sick-note visit.

Read the work and school note guide

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