Older individuals with symptomatic lumbar stenosis who were given lumbar epidural steroid injections were found to have improved pain scores and physical function 1 month after the intervention.
Researchers posit that improvement of health related quality of life should be an objectives of treatment of early arthritis and early inflammatory back pain, but their finding is that disease only explains part of the assessment of quality of life.
Daily use of a high-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device may reduce pain and improve function in patients with chronic low back pain.
Patients with non-cancer back or neck pain who use vs do not use tobacco may be more likely to be concurrently prescribed opioid analgesics with muscle relaxants and/or benzodiazepines.
Multi-site pain was found to be common in older adults with persistent back pain and be associated with greater back pain intensity and poorer quality of life.
Color Doppler ultrasound may represent an appropriate tool for the diagnosis of sacroiliitis in patients presenting with inflammatory back pain.
Patients with spondylosis, intervertebral disk disorders, and other back issues and comorbid depression may have greater healthcare expenditures than those without the comorbidity.
Chronic spinal pain and depressive disorders — particularly chronic depression — may each represent a risk factor for the other condition.
Frequent persistent back pain is associated with increased mortality in older women.
Choosing — or starting treatment with — manual therapy over opioid medications for the management of spine or shoulder may result in lower associated downstream costs.
