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If you are feeling a pain in the flanks, in the lower back portion under the rib cages, you may be suffering from kidney pain. It is important for you to pinpoint the location of your pain. You may just be mistaking the pain from a ligament sprain or a muscle pull injury as pain in kidney. Picture 1: Image showing location of kidney inside human body. Source: Wikipedia.
Possible causes of kidney pain include: 1  Bleeding in your kidney (hemorrhage) 2  Blood clots in kidney veins (renal vein thrombosis) 3  Kidney cancer or a kidney tumor.  Kidney cysts (enlargement or 1  rupture) Kidney infection (pyelonephritis)  Kidney 1  stones. Kidney swelling due to a backup of urine (hydronephrosis)  Polycystic kidney disease.