Lower back pain: a need for thorough assessment

Acupuncture for lower back pain: a review.

OBJECTIVE We briefly discuss the history of acupuncture and its postulated mechanisms of action, but our primary objective is to discuss the evidence for acupuncture's efficacy in low back pain as well as approaches of newer study protocols to define more clearly the true usefulness of this alternative modality in low back pain. METHODS Pubmed online search of all articles and other literatur...

Lower back pain

Lower back pain (LBP) is one of the most common and costly medical problems today [1, 2]. Pain is usually transitory and can arise from the intervertebral discs, bones, ligaments and muscles of the spine. Risk factors for LBP include genetic, environmental, psychosocial and biomechanical influences [3]. However, although 85% of LBP cases have no clear etiology, 97% may be due to musculoskeletal...

Triage for nonspecific lower-back pain.

UNLABELLED Unremitting lower-back pain has long been a costly and personally devastating problem in society. Guidelines for the treatment of lower-back pain have provided evidence-based recommendations to help identify patients who will benefit from specific types of treatment in an effort to reduce costs and human suffering. However, there is little evidence that these guidelines are being app...

Chronic Mechanical Lower Back Pain

♦ Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Dept of Neurosurgery, Hahnemann University Hospital, Drexel College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA ◊ University Neurosurgical Pain Clinic, Philadelphia, PA, USA ________________________________________________________________________ OBJECTIVE: To determine the significance of facet joint arthropathy (FJA) in chronic mechanical lower back pain (CMLBP) ...

Assessment of Back Pain