LOW BACKACHE AND SCIATICA

Backache

Psychiatric disorders in low backache patients: A neurosurgeon's nightmare!!!

© 2016 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow LBA without neural compression for the underlying psychiatric/ psychological disorders. Many case studies have been published on this critical issue, but not in the neurosurgical literature. Hence, most of us often either neglect or are not even aware of the impact of psychological factors associated with LBA. Christen...

Dyspeptic backache.

Not infrequently the back is the site of a pain which at times may be very disabling. This is well known to occur in various spinal conditions involving the skeletal structures. It is also recognized as a feature at times of gynaecological disorders, organic nervous diseases, and states of anxiety and hysteria. Much less appreciated is the fact that backache may be caused by various intra-abdom...

Low back pain and sciatica: summary of NICE guidance.

Low back pain is the leading cause of long term disability worldwide. The lifetime incidence of low back pain is 58-84%, and 11% of men and 16% of women have chronic low back pain. Back pain accounts for 7% of GP consultations and results in the loss of 4.1 million working days a year. More than 30% of people still have clinically significant symptoms after a year after onset of sciatica. This ...

Prevention of relapsing backache

BACKGROUND The condition of non-specific back pain is characterized by high prevalence, non satisfactory therapeutic options and severe socioeconomic consequences. Therefore prevention seems an attractive option to downsize the problem. However, the construction of effective preventive measures is complicated by the obscure aetiology of the condition, the multidimensionality of risk and prognos...