{"id":115,"date":"2007-08-18T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/18\/back-pain-and-mitral-valve-prolapse\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T16:51:54","slug":"back-pain-and-mitral-valve-prolapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/18\/back-pain-and-mitral-valve-prolapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Pain And Mitral Valve Prolapse: What Should Patients Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/11\/all-the-symptoms-of-mitral-valve-prolapse\/\">symptoms for mitral valve prolapse<\/a> as I have written about in a prior blog. However, I just received a patient email asking, &#8220;Can you have back pain with mitral valve prolapse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a pretty interesting question. I&#8217;ll tell you why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/back-pain-mital-prolapse.jpg\" alt=\"Back Pain &amp; Mitral Valve Prolapse\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, for three years before my heart valve surgery I had chronic, lower back pain. I saw chiropractors. I saw massage therapists. I had prolotherapy done. I had cranial sacral therapy. I even went to a Chinese healer.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? Nothing helped!<\/p>\n<p>The other reason this is interesting because after my heart surgery recovery, I noticed that my lower back pain was no longer present. It&#8217;s been awhile now since my aortic and pulmonary valve replacements (about 20 months), but my lower back pain is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe back pain is a symptom of heart valve disorders including aortic stenosis and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-regurgitation-symptoms-leaking.php\">mitral valve regurgitation<\/a>? So you know, I just did some research on this topic in Google and medical journals.\u00a0 I visited the websites of Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic to see if there was some research about back pain and heart valve disease. Unfortunately, I did not find any literature on this topic.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, that&#8217;s about all I know about back pain as a symptom of mitral valve prolapse.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/symptoms-valve-defects-disoders.php\">What Are the Symptoms of Heart Valve Disease?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/leaking-heart-valve-symptoms.php\">Leaking Heart Valve Symptoms: What Should Patients Know?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitral-regurgitation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42401,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/42401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}