Comparative assessment in muscle relaxants treat back pain

Efficacy and tolerability of muscle relaxants for low back pain: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Muscle relaxants are commonly prescribed for low back pain (LBP); however, there is limited evidence of their clinical efficacy and tolerability. This review evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of muscle relaxants in people with LBP. We searched online databases including Medline, EMBASE, CENTRAL and PsycINFO (inception to end October 2015) and performed citation tracking for eligible rando...

Muscle relaxants for pain management in rheumatoid arthritis.

BACKGROUND Pain management is a high priority for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Muscle relaxants include drugs that reduce muscle spasm (for example benzodiazepines such as diazepam (Valium), alprazolam (Xanax), lorazepam (Ativan) and non-benzodiazepines such as metaxalone (Skelaxin) or a combination of paracetamol and orphenadrine (Muscol)) and drugs that prevent increased muscle to...

Assessment of Back Pain

Assessment of Back Pain

A review of the important points of history taking in chiropractic practice for back pain are presented.

Assessment of Back Pain

In addition to history (1), clinical examination (2) and imaging procedures (3), there are a variety of simple blood and urine tests which may detect pathology. This paper presents a description of the use of the tests most commonly used in hospitals and private practice together with some of the more specific investigations. The information provided has been drawn from two well known texts.(4)(5)