Back Pain - Sciatica

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Back Pain and Sciatica

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NEWS:

Back Pain, Graded Exercise Best

FDA Approves Artificial Disc; Another Alternative to Treat Low Back Pain

Mini-Intervention Helpful in Subacute Low Back Pain

Saline Injections as Effective as Prolotherapy for Chronic Low-Back Pain

Steroid Injections No Better Than Placebo for Back Pain

ARTICLES:

Efficacy of Acupuncture for Treating Back Pain

Improving Low Back Pain With Exercise

Is epidural injection of steroids effective for low back pain?

Low Back Pain Treatments

Physiotherapy compared with advice for low back pain: study supports concept of self management of pain

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A clinical prediction rule to identify patients with low back pain most likely to benefit from spinal manipulation: a validation study. (Ann Intern Med)

A health production function for persons with back problems: results from the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000. (Spine)

A Practice-Based Study of Patients With Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain Attending Primary Care and Chiropractic Physicians: Two-Week to 48-Month Follow-up (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics)

A randomized clinical trial of manipulative therapy and interferential therapy for acute low back pain. (Spine)

Acupuncture for low back pain: traditional diagnosis and treatment of 148 patients in a clinical trial. (Complement Ther Med)

An Analysis of the Relationship Between Activity and Pain in Chronic and Acute Low Back Pain (Anesth Analg)

Back pain and physiotherapy

Does it Matter Which Exercise?: A Randomized Control Trial of Exercise for Low Back Pain. (Spine)

Early intervention for the management of acute low back pain: a single-blind randomized controlled trial of biopsychosocial education, manual therapy, and exercise. (Spine)

Effective physical treatment for chronic low back pain. (Orthop Clin North Am)

Epidural steroids for back and leg pain: Mechanism of action and efficacy (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine)

Evaluation and treatment of low back pain in family practice. (J Am Board Fam Pract)

Exercise as a treatment for chronic low back pain. (Spine J)

High Fear-Avoiders of Physical Activity Benefit From an Exercise Program for Patients With Back Pain (Spine)

Long-term outcomes in multidisciplinary treatment of chronic low back pain: results of a 13-year follow-up. (Spine)

Management of chronic low back pain (MJA)

Mini-intervention for subacute low back pain: two-year follow-up and modifiers of effectiveness. (Spine)

Muscle relaxants for non-specific low back pain (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

Patterns and trends in opioid use among individuals with back pain in the United States. (Spine)

Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. (Spine)

Prolotherapy injections for chronic low-back pain. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev)

Prolotherapy injections, saline injections, and exercises for chronic low-back pain: a randomized trial. (Spine)

[Radicular Low Back Pain: Is there a Relationship Between the Treatment Regimen and Outcome?] (Psychiatr Prax)

Randomised controlled trial of physiotherapy compared with advice for low back pain (BMJ)

Rehabilitation after lumbar disc surgery (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain (Cochrane Review) (The Cochrane Library)

The unique role of osteopathic physicians in treating patients with low back pain. (J Am Osteopath Assoc)

Treatment Expectancy Affects the Outcome of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions in Chronic Pain. (Clin J Pain. 2005)

United Kingdom back pain exercise and manipulation (UK BEAM) randomised trial: effectiveness of physical treatments for back pain in primary care (BMJ)

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