Low back pain: Steps you may be overlooking
Your main challenge is to pinpoint the true cause and limit invasive interventions. A leading rheumatologist tells how to achieve these goals.
Your main challenge is to pinpoint the true cause and limit invasive interventions. A leading rheumatologist tells how to achieve these goals.
An effective and relatively quick method for zeroing in on the root of back pain coupled with new findings about acupuncture treatment could help clinicians better manage this common complaint from patients.
Education, self-management, and pharmacologic as well as nonpharmacologic therapies take center stage in this latest, jointly issued guideline.
Clinicians may be able to help patients with chronic back pain overcome discomfort by employing a self-care program known as the Alexander technique…
Her discomfort could have been from inevitable arthritis, but there were signs of a different diagnosis.
A useful clinical pearl to help spot the drug-seeking patient with low back pain.
The patient began to lose hope after a canyon hike re-aggravated her low back pan and leg numbness.
Current studies have focused on these patches as adjunctive therapy to more traditional modes of treatment.
Studies have determined which patients would benefit from spine surgery and which ones would not.
The patient is concerned about skin and other cancers due to excessive exposure to the warmth.