Discogenic pain in acute nonspecific low-back pain

Discogenic low back pain.

Most lumbar disk herniations improve over time with or without medical treatment. Disk herniations and annular tears may not be symptomatic and are shown to exist in patients without any symptoms. In some patients, chronic low back pain may result from the syndrome of internal disk disruption. Treatment of chronic pain of diskal cause can be challenging and have varying results in terms of succ...

[The pathogenesis of discogenic low back pain].

OBJECTIVE To study the pathogenesis of the pain of discography and the discogenic low back pain. METHODS 19 specimens of lumbar intervertebral discs from 17 patients with discogenic low back pain during posterior lumbar interbody fusion, and 12 physiologically aging discs and 10 normal control discs were collected to investigate the morphologic features and innervation containing neuropeptide...

Clinical diagnosis for discogenic low back pain

Discogenic lower back pain (DLBP) is the most common type of chronic lower back pain (LBP), accounting for 39% of cases, compared to 30% of cases due to disc herniation, and even lower prevalence rates for other causes, such as zygapophysial joint pain. Only a small proportion (approximately 20%) of LBP cases can be attributed with reasonable certainty to a pathologic or anatomical entity. Thus...

Conservative treatment of acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain.

STUDY DESIGN A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of the most common conservative types of treatment for patients with acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Many treatment options for acute and chronic low back pain are available, but little is known about the optimal treatment strategy. METHODS A rat...

Subgroups within "nonspecific" low back pain.