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Back Pain - 2 Exercises to Strengthen the Back

August 27, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Back Pain - 2 Exercises to Strengthen the Back
Back pain is an increasing problem with as many as 8 out of 10 people suffering from some form of back pain in their lives. Back pain can be caused by many reasons that can include being overweight, having a poor posture or sitting or standing in one position for long periods of time.

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Vital Signs: Regimens: Glucosamine’s Benefits Are Disputed

July 17, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Vital Signs: Regimens: Glucosamine’s Benefits Are Disputed
Does glucosamine help to relieve lower-back pain? (Source: NYT Health)

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Back Pain Exercise & Manipulation Effectiveness in Primary Care

July 16, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Back Pain Exercise & Manipulation Effectiveness in Primary Care
Spinal manipulation and exercise are two common methods used to treat low back pain. Little is known however, about the benefit these treatments provide over and above regular care (which includes advice to stay active, and perhaps oral pain or anti-inflammatory medications).

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Daily functioning and self-management in patients with chronic low back pain after an intensive cognitive behavioral programme for pain management

July 12, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Daily functioning and self-management in patients with chronic low back pain after an intensive cognitive behavioral programme for pain management
Abstract  Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with persistent or recurrent disability which results in high costs for society. Cognitive behavioral treatments produce clinically relevant benefits for patients with CLBP. Nevertheless, no clear evidence for the most appropriate intervention is yet available. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the mid-term effects of treatment in a cohort of patients with CLBP participating in an intensive pain management programme. The programme provided by RealHealth-Netherlands is based on cognitive behavioral principles and executed in collaboration with orthopedic surgeons. Main outcome parameters were daily functioning (Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire and Oswestry Disability Questionnaire), self-efficacy (Pain Sel…

Exercise Offers Benefits After Low Back Rehabilitation

July 8, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Exercise Offers Benefits After Low Back Rehabilitation
Patients with chronic low back pain who participate in a post-rehabilitation exercise program enjoy benefits in trunk muscle endurance and level of disability compared to patients who receive usual care, according to a study in the May 20 issue of Spine. (Source: Modern Medicine)

Advice to rest in bed versus advice to stay active for acute low-back pain and sciatica.

June 24, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Advice to rest in bed versus advice to stay active for acute low-back pain and sciatica.
CONCLUSIONS: Moderate quality evidence shows that patients with acute LBP may experience small benefits in pain relief and functional improvement from advice to stay active compared to advice to rest in bed; patients with sciatica experience little or no difference between the two approaches. Low quality evidence suggests little or no difference between those who received advice to stay active, exercises or physiotherapy. Further research is very likely to have an important impact on the estimate of effect and is likely to change our confidence in it. PMID: 20556780 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

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Overtreated: Many back pain sufferers may benefit more from time than rising spine operations

June 9, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Overtreated: Many back pain sufferers may benefit more from time than rising spine operations
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Why did they cut you?” The shocking question came from a respected spine surgeon tracked down by Keith Swenson, who was still in severe pain after an earlier back operation. He didn’t know what to believe. Two other surgeons had… (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)

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Spinal manipulation ‘has benefits for back pain and migraine’

May 29, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Spinal manipulation ‘has benefits for back pain and migraine’
Spinal manipulation techniques such as osteopathy, chiropractic, massage and physiotherapy are effective in treating acute and chronic low back pain, migraine and some headaches, a review concludes. (Source: Pulse)

Doing Yoga to Solve Back Pain Problems

May 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Doing Yoga to Solve Back Pain Problems
Yoga gains popularity in recent years since this sport undoubtedly gives many benefits. Yoga gives good news to back pain sufferers because it becomes an alternative to cure back pain, while it also gives benefits to all parts of body.

[Health-related quality of life (SF-36) in chronic low back pain and comorbid depression.]

May 15, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

[Health-related quality of life (SF-36) in chronic low back pain and comorbid depression.]
Authors: Ahrens C, Schiltenwolf M, Wang H The purpose is to clarify if comorbidity of depression reduces health-related quality of life (SF-36) in patients with chronic low back pain (CR) and if those comorbid patients (CR+DE) benefit from multimodal pain treatment. Two groups (CR and CR+DE) each with 29 patients are compared over 6 months on study days 0, 21 (inpatient) and 180 (outpatient). Differences exist only at days 0 and 21, not at day 180, with group CR exhibiting higher SF-36 values in each case. Group CR+DE improves in the inpatient phase and especially in the outpatient phase and therefore over the entire study period more than group CR which increases solely in the inpatient phase. The comorbid group is more severely affected by their illness, but improves very constantly….

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