Yesterday while lifting a 7 years old kid, suddenly I developed pain in my lower back. Now it's too severe. I can't even bend my back as it pains a lot. I tried heat therapy, applied various ointments and too paracetamol. But the pain is as it is. What shall had happened? How to reduce and eliminate the pain?

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