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Back Pain Headlines
Clinical Guidance Remains Non-Specific For Drugs To Reduce Bone Cancer Damage
Bone cancer-related fractures and pain can be reduced by drug treatment, but no one drug is superior, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. Researchers undertook a systematic review of the current evidence on bisphosphonate drugs, which are used to prevent bone damage in multiple myeloma...
Wed, 16 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Protecting Autoworkers From Back And Shoulder Injury By Tilting Cars On The Assembly Line
Letting autoworkers sit while they reach into a car's interior could help prevent shoulder and back strain - but another solution might be to tilt the entire car so that workers can stand up. That's the finding of two recent studies, which tested two ways to protect autoworkers from injury...
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Although Back Pain Improves With Care, It Often Persists For A Year Or Longer
For people receiving health care for acute and persistent low-back pain, symptoms will improve significantly in the first six weeks, but pain and disability may linger even after one year, states a large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Low-back pain is a common condition that results in significant health care costs, disability and absenteeism in workplaces...
Tue, 15 May 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Treatment Of Lower Back Pain Could Be Improved By Adding Complementary And Alternative Medical Therapy
Nearly 8 of 10 Americans will experience lower back pain at some time in their lives. Persistent low back pain is a common, incapacitating, costly, and a difficult to treat condition. Many patients might benefit significantly from an individualized, multidisciplinary, team-based model of care that includes access to licensed complementary care practitioners (e.g...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Back Pain - Genetically Engineered Drug Less Effective
It appears that spinal injections of etanercept, a new type of anti-inflammatory genetically engineered drug, are not as effective in relieving the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, as steroid injections into the spine, the current standard of care, according to a new study reported in the 17 April issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine...
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Sciatica Patients Still Do Better With Steroids Than With Etanercept, Study Shows
Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better...
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Interventional Radiology Treatments Coming For Weight Loss, Disc Disease
A minimally invasive treatment may target hunger at its source, another uses X-ray visible embolic beads to block arteries to the stomach and suppress hunger and a third explores the use of stem cells to repair vertebral disc degeneration. Initial results from all these studies were reported at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif...
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
The Molecular Mechanism Responsible For Vertebral Column Degeneration Discovered
Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found an important molecular mechanism responsible for low back pain and other acute vertebral problems like cervical axial pain, all due to aging and degeneration of the vertebral column. The team led by Dr...
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
News From The Journal Of The American Academy Of Orthopaedic Surgeons: March 2012
Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) Provides Lessons in Treatment and Care The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) is the first comprehensive study to look at the effectiveness of different treatments for low back and leg pain...
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Spinal Cord Stimulation Efficiency Boosted With Implanted Device With Three Columns Of Electrodes
A study published in the March issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, describes a new method of electrical stimulation that uses an implanted device with three columns of electrodes, which could increase the efficiency of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for severe back pain...
Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Rest Versus Exercise: Equally Effective On Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain...
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Lumbar Disc Herniations Treated Effectively With Steroid Injections
The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco. "Our study showed an 89% success rate in athletes returning to play after suffering an injury during practice or a game," commented lead author Aaron J...
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Long-Term Financial Disadvantage Faced By Those Who Retire Early Due To Back Problems
Back problems are a highly prevalent health issue, and people with the condition have a significantly greater chance of retiring early from the workforce, much more so than for any other health condition...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Lumbar Disc Degeneration More Likely In Overweight And Obese Adults
One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI)...
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Low Back Pain - Practitioners Recommend Time Off Despite Guidelines
Even though guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise patients to remain active and return to work, most practitioners feel that work factors can cause or aggravate LBP and often recommend a 'short break from work' to allow healing...
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Despite Guidelines To The Contrary, Practitioners Recommend Time Off For Low Back Pain
Guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise staying active and returning to work. Despite this, most practitioners believe work factors can cause or exacerbate LBP, and a recommendation for a "short break from work" to allow healing is common...
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Lying And Sitting More Comfortably
People who have to sit at work often have back pain. People permanently confined to bed are even worse off they frequently develop bed sores. New smart cushioning is intended to eliminate the discomforts of lying and sitting. An integrated sensor system equalizes pressure selectively. Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications...
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Guidelines For Dealing With Back Pain Need To Be More Consistent To Help Cut Sick Days
Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for more unified guidelines about returning back pain patients to work as currently the advice can be contradictory and confusing...
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Lower Back Pain - MRI Does Not Improve Outcomes For Epidural Steroid Injection Candidates
According to an investigation published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to administration of epidural steroid injections (ESI), does not seem to improve outcomes for individuals with chronic lower back pain or for those with conditions like sciatica, and only has a small effect on the p...
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary For Many Back Pain Patients
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States...
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Artificial Pancreas - FDA Provides Options For Designs And Studies
A draft guidance to help artificial pancreas researchers and makers as they create and submit their devices for FDA approval has been issued by the Agency. Artificial pancreases are currently being designed and created for the treatment of diabetes type 1...
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Chronic Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Yoga
Yoga can provide more effective treatment for chronic lower back pain than more conventional methods, according to the UK's largest ever study into the benefits of yoga...
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
News From Annals Of Internal Medicine: Nov. 1 2011
Over Long Term, Yoga Trumps Usual Care for Improving Back Function in Patients Suffering from Low Back Pain In the largest and longest study of its kind published to date, more than 300 patients were followed for one year. Chronic or recurrent back pain cost the U.S. health care system billions of dollars each year, and is one of the most common reasons people visit their doctor...
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Surgical Treatment Within Six Months Of Lumbar Disc Herniation
A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. Symptoms included pain, function, general health, work status and patient satisfaction...
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
Largest US Yoga Study To Date Finds Yoga Eases Back Pain
Yoga classes were linked to better back-related function and diminished symptoms from chronic low back pain in the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga to date, published by the Archives of Internal Medicine as an "Online First" article on October 24. But so were intensive stretching classes...
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:00:00 PDT - Source:MedNewsToday
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