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2013 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 724.8
Other symptoms referable to back
- ICD-9-CM 724.8 is a billable medical code that can be used to specify a diagnosis on a reimbursement claim.
724.8 Alternative Terminology
- Back stiffness
- 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
- Facet syndrome of lumbar spine
- Lumbar facet joint pain
- Lumbar facet syndrome
- Lumbar spine - painful on movement
- Muscle spasm of back
- Muscle spasm of thoracic area of back
- Muscle spasm of thoracic back
- Myopathy with type i hypotrophy
- Ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament
- Panniculitis affecting back
- Panniculitis affecting sacrum
- Panniculitis of back
- Panniculitis of back and neck
- Panniculitis of cervicothoracic
- Panniculitis of cervicothoracic region
- Panniculitis of lumbar
- Panniculitis of lumbar region
- Panniculitis of lumbosacral
- Panniculitis of lumbosacral region
- Panniculitis of neck and back
- Panniculitis of sacrococcygeal
- Panniculitis of sacrococcygeal area
- Panniculitis of thoracolumbar
- Panniculitis of thoracolumbar area
- Panniculitis of thorax
- Paravertebral muscle spasm
- Putti's syndrome
- Spasm of back muscles
- Stiff back
- Stiffness of back
- Thoracic facet joint pain
- Thoracic facet syndrome
- Thoracic spine crepitus
- Thoracic spine crepitus palpable
- Thoracic spine stiff
- Thoracic spine unstable
Applies To
- Ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament NOS
- Panniculitis specified as sacral or affecting back
Convert 724.8 to ICD-10-CM 

ICD-9-CM 724.8 converts approximately to:
- 2013 ICD-10-CM M54.08 Panniculitis affecting regions of neck and back, sacral and sacrococcygeal region
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index entries containing back-references to 724.8:
- Abscess (acute) (chronic) (infectional) (lymphangitic) (metastatic) (multiple) (pyogenic) (septic) (with lymphangitis) (see also Cellulitis) 682.9

- Dislocation (articulation) (closed) (displacement) (simple) (subluxation) 839.8

- 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

- Stiff
back 724.8
- Stiffness, joint NEC 719.50

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