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Intensive Patient Education May Not Be Helpful for Acute Low Back Pain

January 14, 2019 • By Lara C. Pullen, PhD

Education with recommended first-line care may not improve pain outcomes in patients with acute low back pain. When comparing patients who received education with those who received professional consultation without information or advice, researchers found patient education was no more effective than placebo at reducing depression or incidence of chronic low back pain…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Research Reviews Tagged With: Back pain, Chronic pain, low back pain, patient education

Antidepressant of No Clear Value in Chronic Low-Back Pain

October 4, 2018 • By Will Boggs MD

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Low-dose amitriptyline does not have clear benefits for patients with chronic low-back pain that has no specific cause, according to results from a randomized clinical trial. Despite the lack of evidence that antidepressants are more effective than placebo for low-back pain, seven of 14 national and international guidelines recommend their use in… [Read More]

Filed Under: Drug Updates Tagged With: amitriptyline, antidepressants, chronic low-back pain

Anxiety, Depression May Help Predict Outcome of Low Back Pain Treatment

July 31, 2018 • By Lorraine L. Janeczko

NEW YORK (New York)—Patients with anxiety and depression may be less satisfied than other patients with their chronic low back pain (CLBP) treatments, new research suggests. “Patients with anxiety/depression symptoms experienced more pain severity and more pain-related functional, social, and emotional disability, and they were less satisfied with care, compared with the other groups,” the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: anxiety, Back pain, Chronic pain, Depression, low back pain, Pain Management

Anticonvulsants Unhelpful for Low Back Pain

July 7, 2018 • By Marilynn Larkin

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Solid evidence suggests that anticonvulsants provide no benefit for low back or lumbar radicular pain and a high risk of harm, researchers say. “We started the study because these drugs were increasingly being used for low back pain and radiating leg pain, without the support of strong evidence of effectiveness,” principal investigator… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsive drug, low back pain, Pain, Pain Management

Spine Surgery May not Be Needed to Ease Back Pain from Osteoporosis

June 3, 2018 • By Lisa Rapaport

(Reuters Health)—Patients with acute pain from osteoporosis damage to the spine don’t experience any more relief from surgery to inject cement into cracked or broken vertebrae than they would with a sham procedure, a recent trial in The Netherlands suggests. All of the patients in the experiment had compression fractures, which can happen when osteoporosis… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: Back pain, cement, Cristina Firanescu, Evan Davies, Osteoporosis, spine surgery

Tips for Diagnosing & Treating Shoulder & Low Back Pain

March 17, 2018 • By Thomas R. Collins

SAN DIEGO—At two sports medicine talks at the 2017 ACR/ARHP 2017 Annual Meeting last November, two rheumatologists discussed shoulder impingement and low back pain. First, Andrew Concoff, MD, a rheumatology and sports medicine specialist at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif., gave these five shoulder impingement tips: Physical exams may not be very useful… [Read More]

Filed Under: Meeting Reports, Soft Tissue Pain Tagged With: ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, low back pain, shoulder pain

Exercise May Help Prevent Low Back Pain or Make It Less Severe

November 9, 2017 • By Lisa Rapaport

(Reuters Health)—People who exercise may lower their odds of developing low back pain or may reduce the intensity of back pain they do experience, a research review suggests. Compared to people who didn’t exercise, those who did were 33% less likely to develop low back pain, the analysis of data from 16 previously published studies… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: Dr. Rahman Shiri, Exercise, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, low back pain, low back pain prevention

Infiltrating the Disc: Mast Cells & Back Pain

November 6, 2017 • By Lara C. Pullen, PhD

Mast cells may become a therapeutic target for low back pain, according to new research. Researchers found mast cells can infiltrate intervertebral disc cells and play a role in their degeneration. Specifically, mast cells and the cytokine, IL-6, were both more likely to be found in painful intervertebral discs surgically removed from patients than in control discs…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Osteoarthritis Tagged With: Back pain, intervertebral disc, low back pain, mast cell, Osteoarthritis

Undetected Fractures Linked to Back Pain in Older Men

September 22, 2017 • By Shereen Lehman

(Reuters Health)—About three in five older men with tiny spinal fractures related to osteoporosis reported new or worsening back pain in a new study. Only about one-quarter of new vertebral fractures are diagnosed by a doctor, the study team writes in their September 7 online report in Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, though the… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: Back pain, older men, Osteoporosis, spinal fractures, undetected fractures

Guidelines on Advice for Low Back Pain at Odds with Clinical Trial Results

July 30, 2017 • By Reuters Staff

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Advice is considered an effective treatment for acute low back pain (LBP), but neither clinical trials nor guidelines include adequate detail on what this advice should be, or how doctors should deliver it, according to a new review. And half of the advice topics included in guidelines were discordant with evidence from… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Soft Tissue Pain Tagged With: Advice, Back pain, clinical trials, Exercise, Guidelines, low back pain

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