Use of muscle relaxants in nonspecific lower back pain

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...

Use of Muscle Relaxants in Patients Without Kidney Disease

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Use of muscle relaxants.

Muscle relaxants for nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review within the framework of the cochrane collaboration.

STUDY DESIGN A systematic review of randomized and/or double-blinded controlled trials. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The use of muscle relaxants in the management of nonspecific low back pain is controversial. It is not clear if they are effective, and concerns have been raised about the potential adverse effects involved. OBJECTIVES The aim of this review was to determine if muscle relaxants...

Update on chronic nonspecific lower back pain: rehabilitation.

1. What is the benefit of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic nonspecific lower back pain? a. The performance of acupuncture combined with other conservative therapies is not more beneficial than applying the same therapies in isolation b. Real acupuncture (deep insertion into acupoints) is superior to sham acupuncture (superficial insertion at sites away from the acupoints) c. Acupuncture ...