Risk for Lower Back Pain Seen With Asthma, COPD
Patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have an increased risk for the development of long-term lower back pain.
Patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have an increased risk for the development of long-term lower back pain.
More education needed to warn of burn risk from hot pavement, particularly as temps exceed 100.
Self-administered acupressure may be efficacious for reducing pain and fatigue in patients with chronic low back pain.
However, sleep disorder does not lessen the impact of pain intensity, disability on health care utilization.
Prescribing fewer opioid pills after surgery and providing opioid use education before surgery may reduce postoperative opioid consumption.
Odds of long-term opioid use up with initial Rx for 5- to 9-day supply vs supply of less than 5 days.
Researchers utilized a national commercial insurance claims database to determine the current temporal and geographic trends of imaging use in the primary care setting for the evaluation of low back pain.
Rates of opioid administration were found to be high in opioid-naive inpatients.
Retail customers report decreases in prescriptions, over-the-counter meds due to effectiveness of cannabis.
Patients with vs without episodic or chronic cluster headache may have reduced sleep quality.