Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Beneficial And Low Cost Treatment For Back Pain

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Beneficial And Low Cost Treatment For Back Pain
An article published in this week’s issue of The Lancet reports that group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can reduce low-back pain at a low cost to the health-care provider. Furthermore, one year after the start of treatment, the improvement was sustained. Ranked as one of the top three most disabling conditions in the developed World, persistent low-back pain is increasingly common. It can be very debilitating. Because it is so widespread, back pain is also costly to treat… (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Chronic Low Back Pain - Back Brace Support Can Help Give You Relief - Special Report

Chronic Low Back Pain - Back Brace Support Can Help Give You Relief - Special Report
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Effectiveness of manual therapies: the UK evidence report

Effectiveness of manual therapies: the UK evidence report
Conclusions: Spinal manipulation/mobilization is effective in adults for: acute, subacute, and chronic low back pain; migraine and cervicogenic headache; cervicogenic dizziness; manipulation/mobilization is effective for several extremity joint conditions; and thoracic manipulation/mobilization is effective for acute/subacute neck pain. The evidence is inconclusive for cervical manipulation/mobilization alone for neck pain of any duration, and for manipulation/mobilization for mid back pain, sciatica, tension-type headache, coccydynia, temporomandibular joint disorders, fibromyalgia, premenstrual syndrome, and pneumonia in older adults. Spinal manipulation is not effective for asthma and dysmenorrhea when compared to sham manipulation, or for Stage 1 hypertension when added to an antihyper…

Exertional paraspinal muscle rhabdomyolysis and compartment syndrome: a cause of back pain not to be missed

bra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3270717cid=c_1_41_ffid=33456url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/754377vl62421712/ Exertional paraspinal muscle rhabdomyolysis and compartment syndrome: a cause of back pain not to be missed /abrWe describe a case of acute, severe exertional compartment syndrome of the paraspinal muscles in a young and healthy male ultimately resulting in significant rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury. The rarity of the syndrome has prevented the establishment of specific guidelines for management; therefore, we will discuss this case in the context of similar previously reported cases, contrasting the various treatment approaches and outcomes described in previous reports. This discussion outlines a syndrome not commonly considered in the differential diagnosis of back pain. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Case ReportDOI 10.1007/s10067-010-1391-9Authors Lori Wik, University of Alberta Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentist… br

Evaluation of the effectiveness of workplace exercise in controlling neck, shoulder and low back pain: a systematic review

bra target=_blank rel=nofollow href=http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3222753cid=c_1_66_ffid=37447url=http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttextpid=S1413-35552009000600002lng=ennrm=isotlng=en Evaluation of the effectiveness of workplace exercise in controlling neck, shoulder and low back pain: a systematic review /abrCONCLUSIONS: The electronic search yielded a total of 8680 references published in English. At the end of the selection process, 18 studies were included. Strong evidence was found to support the effectiveness of physical exercise in controlling neck pain among workers who performed sedentary tasks in offices or administrative environments, while moderate evidence was found for low back pain relief among healthcare and industrial workers who performed heavy physical tasks. These positive results were reported when the training periods were longer than 10 weeks, the exercises were performed against some type of resistance and the sessions were supervised. None of the studies evaluating sedentary workers reported positive results for controlling musculoskeletal shoulder pain. Further randomi… br

Lower back pain in golf: a review.

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Lumbar facet syndromes.

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New developments in multiple sclerosis and pain management

New developments in multiple sclerosis and pain management
Promising studies were reported at the 25th congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in MS (ECTRIMS), held on 9-12 September 2009 in Düsseldorf, Germany, while data on a new treatment for chronic low back pain was presented at the 6th Triennial congress of the European Federation of Chapters (EFIC) of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), held on 9-12 September 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Future Prescriber)

An atypical localisation of tuberculosis infection in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a case report

An atypical localisation of tuberculosis infection in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a case report
Spinal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare skeletal system localisation of TB in haemodialysis patients. In this paper, a case of Pott’s disease with a psoas muscle abscess is reported. The patient had been on the dialysis programme for five years and was complaining of back pain, weight loss and weakness, which were investigated. A thoracolumbar magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple paravertebral abscesses invading the psoas muscle. TB diagnosis was made by microbiological analysis of specimen, which was obtained by fine needle aspiration under computerised tomography guidance. (Source: Journal of Renal Care)

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Predictors of new vertebral endplate signal (Modic) changes in the general population

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Abstract  Vertebral endplate signal changes (VESC), also known as Modic changes, have been reported to be associated with low back pain (LBP). However, little is known about predisposing factors for the development of new VESC. The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of lifestyle factors and disc-related magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in relation to the development of new VESC. This prospective observational study included 344 people from the Danish general population who had an MRI and completed LBP questionnaires at the age of 40 and again at 44 years. Potential predictors of new VESC were female gender, disc-related MRI findings (disc degeneration, disc bulges, disc herniation, and other endplate changes) and lifestyle factors [high …

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