The Back 2 Activity Trial: Education and Advice versus Education and Advice plus a Structured Walking Programme for Chronic Low Back Pain

The Back 2 Activity Trial: Education and Advice versus Education and Advice plus a Structured Walking Programme for Chronic Low Back Pain
DiscussionThis paper describes the rationale and design of a study which will test the feasibility of using a structured, pedometer-driven walking programme in participants with chronic low back pain.Trial Registration: [ISRCTN67030896] (Source: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders)

Shocking Truth - The Real Reason You Have Not Found Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment

Shocking Truth - The Real Reason You Have Not Found Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment
Looking for Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment? The elusive low back pain relief that you have yet to find. This is one of those times when you wish you had a genie to make everything go away in one blink of an eye, But there are no genies for you, just you and your pain.

Pfizer Suspends Chronic Pain Studies in Tanezumab Clinical Trial Program; Some Studies Continue in Areas of Unmet Medical Need

Pfizer Suspends Chronic Pain Studies in Tanezumab Clinical Trial Program; Some Studies Continue in Areas of Unmet Medical Need
July 19, 2010 (Pfizer) - Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced, at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the suspension of the chronic low back pain and painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy studies in the clinical program for the investigational compound tanezumab. Investigation of the compound continues in some areas of high unmet medical need, including cancer pain. read more (Source: Diabetes News from dLife.com)

What to Expect When Dealing With Low Back Pain

What to Expect When Dealing With Low Back Pain
Low Back Pain is an epidemic in the United States. Nine out of ten Americans will suffer from low back pain at some point. What can be expected with Low Back Pain? How often does it go away on its own and how often does it become chronic? This article discusses the typical outcomes from low back pain and the current recommendations for management.

Back Pain - Self Help Tips From an Osteopath

Back Pain - Self Help Tips From an Osteopath
If you are one of the millions that suffer low back pain then there are a few basic ways in which you can help yourself, but my first piece of advice has to be to get professional osteopathic help, in my experience the sooner you have treatment after an injury the better, it makes a vast difference to how quickly the recovery is. On the other hand if you have long term, chronic back pain then try getting help for that too, don’t just accept you have to live with it, take pain killers forever or that it is just…

FDA Panel Gives Mixed Blessing to Duloxetine for Chronic Pain

FDA Panel Gives Mixed Blessing to Duloxetine for Chronic Pain
Eli Lilly’s efforts to expand indications for duloxetine got a mixed response from an FDA advisory panel, who voted in favor of the drug for low back pain but against it for osteoarthritis. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

Adolescents with symptomatic laminolysis: report of two cases

Adolescents with symptomatic laminolysis: report of two cases
Abstract  Retroisthmic cleft refers to a cleft in the lamina and is rarely reported. It was first described by Brocher, and later Wick et al. proposed the term “laminolysis” to describe the retroisthmic cleft by analogy with the nomenclature of the applied stress fracture of the pars interarticularis (spondylolysis) and the pedicle (pediculolysis). In this paper, we describe two adolescent sports players with symptomatic lumbar laminolysis. Both improved significantly after adequate conservative treatment. Knowledge of laminolysis in adolescent patients with low back pain is necessary to avoid overlooking it and late diagnosis. For correct diagnosis, multidetector three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) is suggested. In addition, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…

Process evaluation of a Participatory Ergonomics programme to prevent low back pain and neck pain among workers

Process evaluation of a Participatory Ergonomics programme to prevent low back pain and neck pain among workers
Conclusions: PE can be a successful method to develop and to prioritise ergonomic measures to prevent LBP and NP. Despite the positive rating of the PE programme the implementation of the prioritised ergonomic measures was lower than expected.Trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials ISRCTN27472278 (Source: Implementation Science)

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