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Indication-Specific Protocols to Reduce CT Radiation
While maintaining an acceptable level of diagnostic image quality, simple methods could help reduce CT radiation exposure.
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Persistent Back Pain Linked to Earlier Mortality in Older Women
Frequent persistent back pain is associated with increased mortality in older women.
Subjective and Objective Well-Being Profiles in Chronic Back Pain
Well-being was found to be associated with psychosocial resources and subjective evaluations to a greater extent than with objective measures in patients with chronic back pain.
Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation Disrupts Back Pain
Dorsal root ganglion neurostimulation therapy may reduce pain and disability in patients with chronic lower extremity and back pain.
Inflammatory Back Pain Resolves in Many Patients
Inflammatory back pain often resolves, while in 30 percent of patients it progresses to spondyloarthritis within 10 years.
Transformainal Epidural Steroid Injection Superior to Caudal in Lumbosacral Disk Herniation
For patients with lumbosacral disk herniation being considered for epidural steroid injection (ESI) to treat back and radicular pain, transforaminal ESI may be superior to caudal ESI in terms of clinical outcomes.
Pain Neuroscience Education May Improve Kinesiophobia in Chronic Spinal Pain
Pain neuroscience education in patients with chronic spinal pain may improve kinesiophobia and the perceived negative consequences and cyclicity of illness.
Discectomy for Lumbar Disc Herniation Improves Associated Back Pain
Patients with a lumbar disc herniation and associated back pain may experience improvements in back pain, leg pain, and disability 12 months after single- or 2-level lumbar discectomy.
Postpartum Abdominoplasty Improves Back Pain, Incontinence
Abdominoplasty in the postpartum population improves low back pain and urinary incontinence.
Milwaukee Brace for Adolescent Scoliosis Associated With Long-Term Back Pain
Women who were treated as adolescents with a restrictive Milwaukee brace during adolescence may be at higher risk for experiencing low back pain and neck-related disabilities in adulthood.
Perturbation-Based Rehabilitation Effective for Chronic Low Back Pain
Variable and unpredicted perturbations to the spine may lead to increased muscle strength and pain reduction in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.
Clinical Pain Advisor Articles
- Reviewing the Use of Buprenorphine in Perioperative Pain Management
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- CBT Program Effective for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder
- Large Survey Evaluates Effects of Chronic Migraine on Life Domains
- Reviewing the Use of Buprenorphine in Perioperative Pain Management
- External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation May Alleviate Migraine Pain
- Pulsed Ultrasound May Be Effective for the Treatment of Rib Fractures
- Greater Walking Frequency, Duration May Reduce Risk for Low Back Pain
- CDC: Top 10 Drugs Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths
- IASP Updates Diagnosis Criteria for Chronic Primary Pain for ICD-11
- IASP Updates Classification of Chronic Pain
- Risk Factors Associated With Chronic Opioid Use in Musculoskeletal Pain
- OnabotulinumtoxinA Therapy May Reduce Frequency, Severity of New Daily Persistent Headache
- Effect Sizes Uncertain for Medication vs Placebo in Knee OA Pain
