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In adulthood, especially in older adults, scoliosis can cause pain, arthritis, pinched nerves and even walking or breathing difficulties, one expert said.
The most common complaint among people with chronic pain is low back pain. Here’s what treatments do – and don’t – work.
We talk about the effect of stress on hearts but not enough about its relationship to musculoskeletal pain, says physiotherapist Antony Bush. He talks to Jesse Mulligan about the advice in his new book The Back Fix.
Your chance of recovery depends on how long you’ve had back pain, and whether you get effective treatment and education about your condition.
Back pain robs more Australians of their healthy enjoyment of life than anything else, yet we seem to be doing it to ourselves.
An Australian-led chronic back pain study could upend the way we treat sore backs, as a new approach to treatment produces powerful and sustained improvements in pain and disability.
A new approach to treating back injuries could help millions of Australians who suffer debilitating pain each year.
Opioids don’t work. Surgery and injections rarely do, and scans are unnecessary. Better to get moving
Back pain often comes on without warning and will usually get better on its own, even when imaging shows changes such as arthritis and disc degeneration. The best way to treat back pain is to avoid prolonged rest and stay active instead. Aggressiv
Researchers from UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil and the University of Washington, US have identified a new drug-free treatment which combines hypnosis with pain management education to reduce the intensity of chronic low back pain.
Chronic low back pain is the leading cause of disability in Australia and will develop in around 40% of the 4 million Australians who experience low back pain.
Associate Professor James McAuley from NeuRA and UNSW Sydney said that despite the availability of pain medications and other pain therapies, an ideal treatment which benefits the majority of chronic pain sufferers has not been identified.
“Most of the available therapies have significant side effects, or risks of serious adverse events,” said Assocaite Professor McAuley.
“Hypnosis is a safe drug-free method which we have shown can help reduce pain intensity, disability, and catastrophising of pain by those receiving the combined treatment.
A recent series on low back pain by the global medical journal The Lancet shows doctors often overlook recommended treatments, such as advice to stay active and to exercise.
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Opioids are the one of the most prescribed pain-relief for people with low back and neck pain. But new research shows they don’t effectively relieve low back or neck pain and can result in worse pain.
A review of randomized clinical trials found the best way to use over-the-counter pain medications for sudden low back pain.
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Injections of bone cement into fractured vertebrae fail to relieve pain any more than a placebo does, researchers found.
The most common cause of disability is a condition as old as time itself. But is the industry that has built up around scans, injections and opioids a waste of time?
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A Lancet series on low back pain shows that unnecessary treatments and advice to rest are making the problem worse, when in reality sufferers should remain active. Read more at Monash Lens.
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