Psychosomatic low back pain in the young.

It is important to differentiate emotional responses from the organic disorders in treating the patients of low back pain. Especially in indicating surgery, little attention has been paid to psychogenic low back pain in the children. We report four young patients who showed remarkable manifestations of sciatica. We revealed that emotional factors or psychogenic manifestations of symptoms with lumbar disc herniation were involved in these patients after surgery or careful observations and examinations.