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Back Pain
 9/9/2010 Back To School, Backpack Safety
Backpacks are a leading cause of back and shoulder pain for millions of school children across the nation. As students gear up for back to school this fall, Minnesota chiropractors would like to offer parents ways to help children avoid backpack injuries. Over 40 million students carry a backpack to school each day...
9/9/2010 Manipulated Neural Stem Cells To Repair Spinal Cord Injury
One of the most common causes of disability in young adults is spinal cord injury. Currently, there is no proven reparative treatment...
9/9/2010 Interventional Spine®, Inc. Announces The Completion Of Another Successful Cervical Surgery, With Its PERPOS® Percutaneous Cervical System
Interventional Spine, Inc. announced the completion of another successful surgery with the unique PERPOS Percutaneous Cervical System for the treatment of neck pain. To the Company's knowledge, the PERPOS Percutaneous Cervical System is the only product that can stabilize the posterior cervical spine with a truly percutaneous procedure...
9/9/2010 A Little Adversity Bodes Well For Those With Chronic Back Pain
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, to be published in the September issue of the journal Pain, reveals that, for people with chronic back pain, having a little adversity in your life can be protective and beneficial...
9/9/2010 A Little Adversity Bodes Well For Those With Chronic Back Pain
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Irvine, to be published in the September issue of the journal Pain, reveals that, for people with chronic back pain, having a little adversity in your life can be protective and beneficial...
9/9/2010 High Heels May Lead To Joint Degeneration And Knee Osteoarthritis
While women have been making a fashion statement in high heels for years - wearing trendy stilettos, wedges, pumps and kitten heels - there's reason for concern about what those heels may be doing to their knees and joints over time...
9/9/2010 Question Mark Over Combination Pain Relief Products
Codeine is a weak opioid used in many combination pain relief products, but its role in managing acute pain is questioned in this month's edition of Australian Prescriber. In the article Dr Bridin Murnion, from the Drug Health Service at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney, discusses the evidence around combinations of different painkillers in the same tablet (eg...
9/9/2010 54 Percent Of Patients Achieve Relief After 1 Month Of Transforaminal Steroid Injection For Lumbar Radicular Pain
A recent study from Australian researchers determined that transforaminal injection of steroids was a viable alternative to surgery for lumbar radicular pain due to disc herniation...
9/9/2010 Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval Of New Leads For The Precision Plus™ Spinal Cord Stimulator System
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of two spinal cord stimulation (SCS) leads for use with its Precision Plus™ Spinal Cord Stimulator System, the world's first rechargeable SCS device for the management of chronic pain of the trunk and/or limbs...
9/9/2010 AHRQ News And Numbers: Price Tag For Treating Back Problems Now Totals $30.5 Billion
Treating back problems, one of the most bothersome medical problems, cost Americans more than $30 billion in 2007- up from $16 billion in 1997 (in 2007 dollars), according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...
9/9/2010 Diagnostic "Guidelines" A Barrier To Prompt Relief For Some Back Pain
Slavishly following long-held guidelines for diagnosing the cause of arthritis-related back pain is resulting in excessive tests, delays in pain relief and wasteful spending of as much as $10,000 per patient, new Johns Hopkins-led research suggests...
9/9/2010 Trial Shows Glucosamine No Better Than Placebo For Lower Back Pain
A controlled trial in Norway found that the popular dietary supplement glucosamine was no better than placebo at reducing pain-related disability in people with lower back pain with degenerative lumbar osteoarthritis (OA)...
9/9/2010 Study Finds Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Chiropractic Care And Other Complementary And Alternative Approaches
A recent study, "Perceived Benefit of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Back Pain" (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, May - June 2010, Vol. 23 No.3), found the majority of respondents receiving CAM for back pain reported great benefit from the various treatments...
9/9/2010 Reducing Unnecessary Emergency Department X-Rays Using Top Down Approach
An imaging algorithm produced by a radiology department and distributed through the medical director's office, in a top-down fashion, enabled a large, academic medical center to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary cervical spine radiographs (X-rays) in the emergency department, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology)...
9/9/2010 PTs Provide Relief From Common Pregnancy And Postpartum Woes
Summer is not only characterized by rising temperatures, it is also the season for the most births in the United States, particularly during July.1 It is estimated that virtually all women experience some degree of musculoskeletal discomfort during pregnancy, and 25% have at least temporarily disabling symptoms...
9/9/2010 Attitudes, Beliefs And Health Literacy Impact How Patients Manage Chronic Lower Back Pain, According To A New Study Published In PAIN®
Approximately 10% of low back pain (LBP) sufferers experience persistent pain and significant disability...
9/9/2010 Surprising Find May Yield New Avenue Of Treatment For Painful Herniated Discs
An immune cell known to cause chronic inflammation in autoimmune disorders has been identified as a possible culprit in low back pain associated with herniated discs, according to doctors at Duke University Medical Center...
9/9/2010 Literature Review Discusses Lower Back Pain And Surgery
A literature review, led by Dr. Joseph Lee, published in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS) suggests that a herniated disk is one of the most frequent causes of low back and leg pain in adults, but surgery is not for everyone...
9/9/2010 Low Back Pain Is No Reason To Stay In Bed
For much of the 20th century, "rest" which generally meant a few days to a week in bed was the standard prescription for acute low-back pain. In recent decades, however, doctors started counseling patients to stay as active as they could...
9/9/2010 Low Back Pain Is No Reason To Stay In Bed
For much of the 20th century, "rest"- which generally meant a few days to a week in bed - was the standard prescription for acute low-back pain. In recent decades, however, doctors started counseling patients to stay as active as they could...
9/9/2010 Disk Herniation: Better Results From Surgery After A Short Period Of Sick Leave
Back pain and leg pain may be caused by lumbar disk herniation. It may be necessary to treat the condition by surgery, if it persists. Patients who have a short period of sick leave before the surgery are more satisfied with the result of the procedure than those who are off work sick longer. This is the conclusion of a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden...
9/9/2010 The Length Of Sick Leave For Back And Neck Problems Determined By Personal Factors
Patients, sick-listed for back and neck problems return to work at different rates despite having similar problems, and personal factors play a major role, reveals a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Researchers followed 385 patients in a rehabilitation programme over a ten-year period...
9/9/2010 Football Stars Unite To Tackle Back Pain
UK Premiership footballer Rory Delap, renowned for his devastating throw-in, has joined forces with a number of football heroes across Europe to support 'Back in Play', a European wide campaign to reach young men and women and raise awareness of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a poorly understood condition which can affect the lower back...
9/9/2010 Sitting In Front Of A Screen Associated With Physical Complaints In Teenagers
The amount of time teenagers spend in front of TV screens and monitors has been associated with physical complaints. A large study of more than 30,000 Nordic teenagers published in the open access journal BMC Public Health has shown that TV viewing, computer use and computer gaming (screen time) were consistently associated with back pain and recurrent headaches...
9/9/2010 What Is Scoliosis? What Causes Scoliosis?
Scoliosis is a condition in which the spine bends to the side abnormally; either to the right or left. The curvature can be moderate to severe. Any part of the spine can be bent in scoliosis; but the most common regions are the chest area (thoracic scoliosis) or the lower part of the back (lumbar scoliosis)...
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