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Sciatica Patients Still Do Better With Steroids Than With Etanercept, Study Shows

roy — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:20:56 +0000

Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better…

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Treatment Of Lower Back Pain Could Be Improved By Adding Complementary And Alternative Medical Therapy

roy — Tue, 01 May 2012 05:19:22 +0000

Nearly 8 of 10 Americans will experience lower back pain at some time in their lives. Persistent low back pain is a common, incapacitating, costly, and a difficult to treat condition. Many patients might benefit significantly from an individualized, multidisciplinary, team-based model of care that includes access to licensed complementary care practitioners (e.g…

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Back Pain – Genetically Engineered Drug Less Effective

roy — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:18:56 +0000

It appears that spinal injections of etanercept, a new type of anti-inflammatory genetically engineered drug, are not as effective in relieving the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, as steroid injections into the spine, the current standard of care, according to a new study reported in the 17 April issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine…

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Interventional Radiology Treatments Coming For Weight Loss, Disc Disease

roy — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:18:48 +0000

A minimally invasive treatment may target hunger at its source, another uses X-ray visible embolic beads to block arteries to the stomach and suppress hunger and a third explores the use of stem cells to repair vertebral disc degeneration. Initial results from all these studies were reported at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif…

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The Molecular Mechanism Responsible For Vertebral Column Degeneration Discovered

roy — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:19:11 +0000

Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found an important molecular mechanism responsible for low back pain and other acute vertebral problems like cervical axial pain, all due to aging and degeneration of the vertebral column. The team led by Dr…

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Rest Versus Exercise: Equally Effective On Lower Back Pain

roy — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:19:29 +0000

Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain…

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Spinal Cord Stimulation Efficiency Boosted With Implanted Device With Three Columns Of Electrodes

roy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:19:09 +0000

A study published in the March issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, describes a new method of electrical stimulation that uses an implanted device with three columns of electrodes, which could increase the efficiency of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for severe back pain…

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Lumbar Disc Herniations Treated Effectively With Steroid Injections

roy — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:19:30 +0000

The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Specialty Day in San Francisco. “Our study showed an 89% success rate in athletes returning to play after suffering an injury during practice or a game,” commented lead author Aaron J…

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Long-Term Financial Disadvantage Faced By Those Who Retire Early Due To Back Problems

roy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:19:08 +0000

Back problems are a highly prevalent health issue, and people with the condition have a significantly greater chance of retiring early from the workforce, much more so than for any other health condition…

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Guidelines For Dealing With Back Pain Need To Be More Consistent To Help Cut Sick Days

roy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:19:19 +0000

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for more unified guidelines about returning back pain patients to work as currently the advice can be contradictory and confusing…

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