Diagnosis Code: 724.8

Short Description: Other back symptoms

Long Description: Other symptoms referable to back

Code Classification:

• Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (710–739)
  • Dorsopathies (720-724)
    • 724 Other and unspecified disorders of back
      • 724.8 Other back symptoms

Code Version: 2015 ICD-9-CM

Synonyms

• Bragard's sign
• Complaining of a back symptom
• Counternutation
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine extension
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine flexion
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine left lateral flexion
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine left rotation
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine right lateral flexion
• Decreased active range of lumbar spine right rotation
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine extension
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine flexion
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine left lateral flexion
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine left rotation
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine right lateral flexion
• Decreased active range of thoracic spine right rotation
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine extension
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine flexion
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine left lateral flexion
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine left rotation
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine right lateral flexion
• Decreased passive range of lumbar spine right rotation
• Decreased passive range of thoracic spine extension
• Decreased passive range of thoracic spine flexion
• Decreased passive range of thoracic spine left rotation
• Decreased passive range of thoracic spine right rotation
• Demianoff's sign
• Erichsen's sign
• Lumbar spine painful on movement
• Myopathy with type I hypotrophy
• Ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament
• Panniculitis affecting back
• Panniculitis affecting sacrum
• Paravertebral muscle spasm
• Putti's syndrome
• Stiff back
• Thoracic spine crepitus
• Thoracic spine crepitus palpable
• Thoracic spine stiff
• Thoracic spine unstable

References to Index of Diseases and Injuries

The code 724.8 has the following ICD-9-CM references to the Index of Diseases and Injuries

• Abscess (acute) (chronic) (infectional) (lymphangitic) (metastatic) (multiple) (pyogenic) (septic) (with lymphangitis) (see also Cellulitis) 682.9
  • joint (see also Arthritis, pyogenic) 711.0
    • vertebral (tuberculous) (see also Tuberculosis) 015.0 [730.88]
      • nontuberculous 724.8

• Dislocation (articulation) (closed) (displacement) (simple) (subluxation) 839.8
  • pathological NEC 718.20
    • spine 724.8
      • sacroiliac 724.6

• Hypertrophy, hypertrophic
  • ligament 728.9
    • spinal 724.8
  • spinal ligament 724.8

• Ossification
  • ligament
    • posterior longitudinal 724.8
      • cervical 723.7

• Panniculitis 729.30
  • back 724.8
  • sacral 724.8

• Rigid, rigidity - see also condition
  • back 724.8
  • spine 724.8

• Spasm, spastic, spasticity (see also condition) 781.0
  • muscle 728.85
    • back 724.8

• Stiff
  • back 724.8

• Stiffness, joint NEC 719.50
  • back 724.8

• Syndrome - see also Disease
  • facet 724.8
  • interspinous ligament 724.8

Crosswalk Information

The code 724.8 converts into the following ICD-10 code(s):

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This page was last updated on: 10/1/2014

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