Caring for patients with low back pain (Sadia Anees Ali MD)

Caring for patients with low back pain (Sadia Anees Ali MD)
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Getting Rid of Back Pain For Good And Stop it From Coming Back

Getting Rid of Back Pain For Good And Stop it From Coming Back
Build Your Core to Cure Back Pain One of the most effective ways to overcome most forms of back pain is to develop and strengthen the muscles of your “core”. There are quite a few ways of doing this, but most people tend to you get the wrong idea for developing your core means.

How to Find a Lasting Back Pain Cure

How to Find a Lasting Back Pain Cure
Back pain is one of the top physical ailments suffered by people all over the world and many hours of work are lost to it. There are many treatments for back pain but the majority do not provide a lasting back pain cure, they just treat the symptoms of back pain.

Effectiveness of posterior tension band fixation in the thoracolumbar seat-belt type injuries of the young population

Effectiveness of posterior tension band fixation in the thoracolumbar seat-belt type injuries of the young population
We report results in the surgical treatment of thoracolumbar flexion–distraction fractures, both associated or not with neurological impairment. Items in the present study include function, pain (back pain rating scale) and neurological recovery (Asia Score). A prospective series of 19 consecutive flexion–extension thoracolumbar injuries (T11–L2), occurred in young patients (20–33 years) due to motor vehicle crashes wearing the 3-point safety belts, includes 2 Chance and 17 seat-belt fractures, with different amount of vertebral dislocation and neurological impairment. Fractures have been evaluated according to the Magerl’s classification. All patients were operated via posterior approach using hybrid instrumentation or short pedicular fixation to reduce dislocation an…

Advice for Gardeners as Spring Approaches

Advice for Gardeners as Spring Approaches
As spring approaches the garden may not always be the friendliest, or the healthiest place, warns the British College of Osteopathic Medicine. BCOM’s naturopathic osteopathy clinics experience a surge in gardening-related injuries, strains and sprains at the onset and throughout the spring months, the most common types of which are lower back pain and strains to ligaments and joints. Dr. (Source: Bones / Orthopaedics News From Medical News Today)

The combination topotecan, temozolomide and dexamethasone associated with radiotherapy as treatment of central nervous system myeloma relapse.

The combination topotecan, temozolomide and dexamethasone associated with radiotherapy as treatment of central nervous system myeloma relapse.
Authors: Annibali O, Nobile C, Greco R, Cellini F, Quattrocchi CC, Tirindelli MC, Petrucci MT, Avvisati G A 46-year-old woman with IgA-lambda myeloma in partial remission, after a tandem autologous hematopoietic stem cells transplantation, complained of progressive lower back pain associated with paraplegia and neurological bladder 6 months after the second transplant. A lumbar puncture revealed atypical malignant plasma cells in the cerebral spinal fluid associated with multiple foci of altered signal intensity of brain and spinal cord demonstrated by magnetic resonance. Considering the lack of efficacious chemotherapies for neurological myeloma, an experimental systemic treatment with topotecan, temozolamide, and dexamethasone associated with concurrent radiotherapy of brain and spin…

The fear-avoidance model in whiplash injuries

The fear-avoidance model in whiplash injuries
Abstract: The aim of this work was to study whether fear of movement, and pain catastrophizing predict pain related-disability and depression in sub-acute whiplash patients. Moreover, we wanted to test if fear of movement is a mediator in the relation between catastrophizing and pain-related disability/depression as has been suggested by the fear-avoidance model [Vlaeyen JWS, Kole-Snijders AMJ, Boeren RGB, van Eek H. Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance. Pain 1995;62:363–72]. The convenience sample used was of 147 sub-acute whiplash patients (pain duration less than 3 months). Two stepwise regression analyses were performed using fear of movement and catastrophizing as the independent variables, and disability and depression as t…

 

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IDEA reports results from a prospective 3 years phase III study of Diractin (ketoprofen in Transfersome gel)

IDEA reports results from a prospective 3 years phase III study of Diractin (ketoprofen in Transfersome gel)
Munich, Germany – April 2, 2009. IDEA AG today announced positive results of a long-term, open-label, Phase III study in joint-pain, musculoskeletal pain (including lower back pain), stiffness, or soft tissue inflammation, presented at the 9th… (Source: Drugs.com - Clinical Trials)

Carlson: Stray thoughts from a day with a bad back

Carlson: Stray thoughts from a day with a bad back
I stumbled across an interesting afternoon television show the other day called “The Doctors.” It is, according to the voice that yelled over the intro music, the place that “M.D

Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis - Dealing With Chronic Pain Associated With RA Part II

Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis - Dealing With Chronic Pain Associated With RA Part II
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease that affects millions around the world every year. The constellation of symptoms, to include chronic joint pain and neck pain, back pain, and sciatica in the latter stages, are both debilitating and disabling. The cause of RA, while understood, is not without aggravating factors. The symptomology is complex and the disease expressions are myriad. Not only is there systemic, chronic pain in the latter stages, affecting joints throughout the body and hastening their degeneration, there is considerable damage to other organ systems, as well. Treatment of RA is problematic and understanding it in its entirety is something of problematic. We have reviewed the etiology (cause), consequences, symptoms, and some of the treatment strategies pertaining to RA, in Part III we will deal with specific treatment strategies available in greater depth, perhaps suggesting a couple of new ones.

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