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Researchers find yoga may be effective for chronic low back pain in minority populations
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center found that yoga may be more effective than standard treatment for reducing chronic low back pain in minority populations.   view more (2009-11-05)

Chronic back pain linked to changes in the brain
A German research team using a specialized imaging technique revealed that individuals suffering from chronic low back pain also had microstructural changes in their brains.   view more (2006-11-29)

Backache Sufferers Who Fear Pain Change Movements
People who fear aggravating a backache will change the way they move to prevent more pain, a new study finds. But doing so may set the stage for further injury, researchers warn.   view more (2007-08-07)

Back education efficacy in elementary schoolchildren
In surveys among children and teenagers during the past few years, as many as half of all children in a community report a history of low back pain. Although several authors advocate the implementation of back education in elementary school, no guidelines exist and little is known about the efficacy of such a program. The inclusion of a back... view more... (2002-04-22)

Advice, devices ineffective in preventing worker back pain
Back pain is the number one cause of worker-compensation complaints, second only to the common cold in causing lost workdays.   view more (2007-07-20)

Renal colic shows a circadian pattern
Renal colic (spasms of pain in the back usually caused by kidney stones) occurs in a circadian pattern, finds a study in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2002-03-27)

Study links depression in women with chronic pain to greater incidence of disability
Women with higher levels of depression when suffering with long-term pain report greater disability than men in the same situation.   view more (2006-06-16)

Pain treatment in the field: Good for soldiers' comfort and better for rebuilding troop strength
Noncombat-related acute and recurrent chronic pain are the leading causes of soldier attrition in modern war, with the return-to-duty rate as low as 2 percent when these soldiers are treated outside the theaters of operation.   view more (2007-12-18)

Insufficient pain relief
Patients often believe that pain is inevitable and that it is necessary as a sign of the state of their disease. Caring staff do not sufficiently explain why pain relief is important and what can be done about its possible side effects. Therefore, too many patients are in too much pain. "Almost all patients in this dissertation had been... view more... (2003-03-25)

Backache beaten by good vibrations..?
University of Manchester researchers are recruiting people with backache caused by nerve root pain-commonly known as sciatica-in the first ever study to discover if therapeutic ultrasound can help their condition.   view more (2006-11-03)

Moving X-rays to revolutionise the diagnosis of back pain
A new image processing system devised by engineers at the University of Southampton could change the way that back problems are diagnosed and provide a solution to one of the most common causes of work loss in the UK. Low back pain is a significant problem and its cost to society is enormous. However, diagnosis of the underlying causes remains... view more... (2003-03-21)

Imaging changes treatment for lower back pain
A simple diagnostic imaging procedure can help identify patients with lower back pain who would benefit from spinal injections and spare those who would not, according to a study appearing in the February issue of Radiology.   view more (2006-01-31)

Pioneering new back pain relief technique to go national
A University of Leicester Medical Department has just received £650,000 funding from the Government to develop nationwide a pioneering technique in back pain relief that has been successfully trialled by Leicestershire Hospitals.  The award will fund a multi-centre, randomised, controlled trial that is expected to reverse previous... view more... (2002-10-16)

Mind over matter
A significant number of people world-wide suffer with chronic pain, which affects every aspect of their lives, and often results in depression.   view more (2006-08-29)

No Justification For Laparoscopic Adhesiolysis To Relieve Abdominal Pain (p1247)
Authors of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET provide evidence that laparoscopic adhesiolysis cannot be recommended as a treatment for adhesions in patients with chronic abdominal pain. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis--keyhole surgery to treat severe abdominal pain by the removal of adhesions--is controversial and is not based on the outcome of... view more... (2003-04-09)

New Treatment Guidelines For Low Back Pain
A summary of evidence on the diagnosis and treatment of low-back pain has prompted the American Pain Society (ASP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) to issue a new treatment guideline.   view more (2007-10-03)

Study reveals reason women are more sensitive to pain than men
For centuries, it has been generally believed women are the more sensitive gender. A new study says that, when it comes to pain, women are in fact more sensitive.   view more (2005-10-25)

Vertebroplasty improves back pain, activity level, Mayo Clinic study reports
A Mayo Clinic study has found patients report less back pain at rest and while active following vertebroplasty, a procedure in which medical cement is injected into painful compression fractures in the spinal vertebrae due to osteoporosis.   view more (2005-12-30)

Pain thresholds linked to inflammation and sleep problems in arthritis patients
Despite recent advances in anti-inflammatory therapy, many rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients continue to suffer from pain.    view more (2009-10-29)

American Pain Society's low back guideline expanded to cover interventional procedures
For low-back pain patients and their doctors, the American Pain Society, www.ampainsoc.org, said today it is expanding its evidence-based, clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and treatment of chronic low back pain to include recommendations on surgery and other interventional treatments.   view more (2008-05-12)
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