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Back Pain Headlines
Lumbar Disc Herniations Treated Effectively With Steroid Injections
The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco. "Our study showed an 89% success rate in athletes returning to play after suffering an injury during practice or a game," commented lead author Aaron J...
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Long-Term Financial Disadvantage Faced By Those Who Retire Early Due To Back Problems
Back problems are a highly prevalent health issue, and people with the condition have a significantly greater chance of retiring early from the workforce, much more so than for any other health condition...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Lumbar Disc Degeneration More Likely In Overweight And Obese Adults
One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI)...
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Low Back Pain - Practitioners Recommend Time Off Despite Guidelines
Even though guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise patients to remain active and return to work, most practitioners feel that work factors can cause or aggravate LBP and often recommend a 'short break from work' to allow healing...
Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Despite Guidelines To The Contrary, Practitioners Recommend Time Off For Low Back Pain
Guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise staying active and returning to work. Despite this, most practitioners believe work factors can cause or exacerbate LBP, and a recommendation for a "short break from work" to allow healing is common...
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Lying And Sitting More Comfortably
People who have to sit at work often have back pain. People permanently confined to bed are even worse off they frequently develop bed sores. New smart cushioning is intended to eliminate the discomforts of lying and sitting. An integrated sensor system equalizes pressure selectively. Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications...
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Guidelines For Dealing With Back Pain Need To Be More Consistent To Help Cut Sick Days
Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for more unified guidelines about returning back pain patients to work as currently the advice can be contradictory and confusing...
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Lower Back Pain - MRI Does Not Improve Outcomes For Epidural Steroid Injection Candidates
According to an investigation published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to administration of epidural steroid injections (ESI), does not seem to improve outcomes for individuals with chronic lower back pain or for those with conditions like sciatica, and only has a small effect on the p...
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary For Many Back Pain Patients
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States...
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Artificial Pancreas - FDA Provides Options For Designs And Studies
A draft guidance to help artificial pancreas researchers and makers as they create and submit their devices for FDA approval has been issued by the Agency. Artificial pancreases are currently being designed and created for the treatment of diabetes type 1...
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Chronic Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Yoga
Yoga can provide more effective treatment for chronic lower back pain than more conventional methods, according to the UK's largest ever study into the benefits of yoga...
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
News From Annals Of Internal Medicine: Nov. 1 2011
Over Long Term, Yoga Trumps Usual Care for Improving Back Function in Patients Suffering from Low Back Pain In the largest and longest study of its kind published to date, more than 300 patients were followed for one year. Chronic or recurrent back pain cost the U.S. health care system billions of dollars each year, and is one of the most common reasons people visit their doctor...
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Surgical Treatment Within Six Months Of Lumbar Disc Herniation
A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. Symptoms included pain, function, general health, work status and patient satisfaction...
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Largest US Yoga Study To Date Finds Yoga Eases Back Pain
Yoga classes were linked to better back-related function and diminished symptoms from chronic low back pain in the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga to date, published by the Archives of Internal Medicine as an "Online First" article on October 24. But so were intensive stretching classes...
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Spinal Cord Injuries Associated With Increased Risk Of Heart Disease
New research from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation may help explain why people with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a higher risk of developing heart disease...
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Yoga Helps Chronic Low Back Pain Symptoms
Individuals who attend yoga classes have better results for chronic low back pain symptoms compared to those using a self-care book, researchers from Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, reported in Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors added that they also experienced superior improvement in function...
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Adaptation To Upright Walking Leaves Humans Susceptible To Backbone Fractures
Osteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers at Case Western Reserve University say. Compared to apes, humans have larger, more porous vertebrae encased in a much thinner shell of bone...
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Breakthrough Discovery Shows How The Brain Copes With Stress
A research team from the University of Leicester say they have discovered the nerve cells in the brain that are responsible for coping with stress. Neuroscientists seem to have made an important move forwards in their understanding of stress and the brain's role in mitigating its impact...
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Tailored Care Of Back Pain More Cost-Effective
New research that compares a more tailored or stratified management of back pain by general practitioners (GPs) in primary care with the current "one size fits all" standard approach finds it could be more effective for patients and also cost less. You can read how the UK-based trial came to this conclusion in the 29 September online issue of The Lancet...
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Acupuncture, Acupressure And Aromatherapy Efficient In Tackling Pain
Many patients suffering from chronic pain try alternative and complementary treatments as these are often viewed as natural and therefore risk-free. Prof. Edzard Ernst (Exeter, UK) warned at the EFIC Congress 'Pain in Europe VII' that patients are being bombarded with misinformation on the subject but that in fact very few alternative pain treatments are supported by well-founded evidence...
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Back Pain? Move, Don't Rest Says Study
Move if you have back pain, this is the advice of a researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Patients with acute low back pain who were advised to stay active despite the pain fared better than those who were told to adjust their activity in line with their pain. The thesis looked at 109 patients with acute severe lowback pain...
Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Don't Let Backpacks Become Back-to-School Back Pain
While backpacks are an essential and stylish way for children to express their personal taste as they head back to school, these over-the-shoulder carriers for books, lunches and supplies can also injure a child's back. Dr...
Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Backpacks Can Mean Backaches For Back-To-Schoolers
Millions of children returning to school this fall will struggle under the weight of an overstuffed backpack, putting themselves at risk of injury, according to Dr. Joshua Hyman, director of orthopedic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. "Parents should inspect their child's backpack from time to time...
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Relievant Medsystems Receives FDA Approval To Begin Pivotal Study To Evaluate The Intracept System For Minimally Invasive Treatment Of Low Back Pain
Relievant Medsystems, Inc. announced the company has received Food and Drug Administration approval of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to begin their SMART pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Intracept® System for treatment of chronic low back pain...
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
Shedding New Light On Prediction Of Spinal Disc Degeneration
About 80% of the active population suffers from low back pain at some point in their lives...
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PST - Source:MedNewsToday
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