Patients who decreased opioid use while undergoing basivertebral nerve ablation were found to experience greater relief of chronic low back pain than those who increased opioid use.
The use of novel waveforms, frequencies, and stimulation modes in spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapies may be more effective at relieving chronic low back pain and/or leg pain compared with traditional tonic low-frequency SCS.
Joint hypermobility may not be associated with chronic low back pain or lumbar osteoarthritis.
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.
Lumbar range of motion in individuals with chronic low back pain may be predicted by task-specific measures of pain-related fear.
NKTR-181 may represent a safe and effective analgesic for patients with chronic low back pain.
For certain patients with complex pain patterns, stimulating both dorsal root ganglion and dorsal columns may relieve pain effectively.
A combination of gabapentin and opioids may not be more effective than opioids alone at alleviating chronic pain.
Daily use of a high-frequency transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device may reduce pain and improve function in patients with chronic low back pain.
A two-point estimation task was associated with greater reliability than commonly used approaches for the assessment of sensory dissociation (SEDI) in patients with chronic low back pain.
