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Wednesday, Jan 27
New disease management initiative in Colorado aims to treat low back pain and improve patient outcomes
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that by increasing the role of the primary-care physician, the recently launched Colorado Low Back Collaborative (CLBC) aims to treat lower back issues with a more holistic view, and ultima...
Sunday, Jan 17
Risks associated with opioid pain medications may outweigh surgery risks
Despite limited evidence of long-term success in using opioid pain medications for chronic low back pain, opioid prescribing has increased in recent years for back pain and other non-cancer pain indications.
Thursday, Dec 31
TENS therapy is not effective against chronic low-back pain
A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology finds that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), a widely used pain therapy involving a portable device, is not recommended to treat chronic low-back pain that has persisted for three months or longer because re...
Tuesday, Dec 15
Spinal Restoration receives FDA SPA concurrence letter for its Phase 3 Biostat System study
Spinal Restoration, Inc. announced today it has received a Special Protocol Assessment concurrence letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the design of its Phase 3 study of the Biostat System for the treatment of chronic discogenic low back pain.
Tuesday, Sep 29
NINDS: $50 billion spent each year for low back pain
A study by researchers at The George Institute for International Health in Australia found that it is rare for patients presenting to PCPs with acute lower back pain to have previously undiagnosed serious diseases. The most common serious disease cause documented was vertebral fractu...
Tuesday, Apr 7
New standardized tool for the assessment of chronic pain helps distinguish pain subtypes
Joachim Scholz from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA and his colleagues studied the symptoms and signs of patients with peripheral neuropathic pain (nerve pain such as sciatica) and non-neuropathic (non-nerve) low back pain to identify the best clinical questions and...
