Back and Spine Pain Archives - Clinical Pain Advisor

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Central Sensitization in Chronic Low Back Pain and Comorbid Fibromyalgia

By

Brandon May

September 6, 2019

Patients with chronic low back pain and comorbid fibromyalgia may have central sensitization and psychosocial symptoms.

Back & Spine Pain

Cell Therapy Receives Fast Track Status for Degenerative Disk Disease

By

Brian Park, PharmD

August 29, 2019

The FDA has granted Fast Track designation for IDCT (DiscGenics, Inc.), an investigational cell therapy for the reduction in pain and disability associated with degenerative disc disease (DDD).

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Atlantoaxial Joint Steroid Injection Improves Neck Pain, Mobility in RA

By

Brandon May

August 27, 2019

A steroid injection into the atlantoaxial joint (AAJ) was found to decrease cervical neck pain and improve neck mobility and rate of recovery rate in patients with acutely inflamed AAJ related to rheumatoid arthritis.

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Self-Administered Acupressure May Improve Pain, Fatigue in Chronic Low Back Pain

By

Brandon May

July 30, 2019

Self-administered acupressure may be efficacious for reducing pain and fatigue in patients with chronic low back pain.

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Persistent Back Pain Linked to Earlier Mortality in Older Women

December 13, 2018

Frequent persistent back pain is associated with increased mortality in older women.

Back & Spine Pain

Subjective and Objective Well-Being Profiles in Chronic Back Pain

By

Tyler Rice

November 1, 2018

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.

Back & Spine Pain

Dorsal Root Ganglion Stimulation Disrupts Back Pain

November 1, 2018

Dorsal root ganglion neurostimulation therapy may reduce pain and disability in patients with chronic lower extremity and back pain.

Back & Spine Pain

Inflammatory Back Pain Resolves in Many Patients

October 5, 2018

Inflammatory back pain often resolves, while in 30 percent of patients it progresses to spondyloarthritis within 10 years.

Back & Spine Pain

Transformainal Epidural Steroid Injection Superior to Caudal in Lumbosacral Disk Herniation

By

Gary Rothbard, MD

August 23, 2018

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.

Post-Surgical Pain

Eight Factors Predict Pain After Spine Surgery

April 30, 2018

An elastic net algorithm was used to create a predictive model of postoperative pain in the first 24 hours after surgery using a randomly selected training cohort.