Medical News Today - Back Pain

Back Pain News From Medical News Today Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:56:33 +0100 Long-Term Financial Disadvantage Faced By Those Who Retire Early Due To Back Problems Back problems are a highly prevalent health issue, and people with the condition have a significantly greater chance of retiring early from the workforce, much more so than for any other health condition... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST Lumbar Disc Degeneration More Likely In Overweight And Obese Adults One of the largest studies to investigate lumbar spine disc degeneration found that adults who are overweight or obese were significantly more likely to have disc degeneration than those with a normal body mass index (BMI)... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST Low Back Pain - Practitioners Recommend Time Off Despite Guidelines Even though guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise patients to remain active and return to work, most practitioners feel that work factors can cause or aggravate LBP and often recommend a 'short break from work' to allow healing... Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PST Despite Guidelines To The Contrary, Practitioners Recommend Time Off For Low Back Pain Guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise staying active and returning to work. Despite this, most practitioners believe work factors can cause or exacerbate LBP, and a recommendation for a "short break from work" to allow healing is common... Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST Lying And Sitting More Comfortably People who have to sit at work often have back pain. People permanently confined to bed are even worse off they frequently develop bed sores. New smart cushioning is intended to eliminate the discomforts of lying and sitting. An integrated sensor system equalizes pressure selectively. Anyone confined to a wheelchair or a bed has to deal with numerous complications... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PST Guidelines For Dealing With Back Pain Need To Be More Consistent To Help Cut Sick Days Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London are calling for more unified guidelines about returning back pain patients to work as currently the advice can be contradictory and confusing... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST Lower Back Pain - MRI Does Not Improve Outcomes For Epidural Steroid Injection Candidates According to an investigation published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to administration of epidural steroid injections (ESI), does not seem to improve outcomes for individuals with chronic lower back pain or for those with conditions like sciatica, and only has a small effect on the p... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PST Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary For Many Back Pain Patients Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PST Artificial Pancreas - FDA Provides Options For Designs And Studies A draft guidance to help artificial pancreas researchers and makers as they create and submit their devices for FDA approval has been issued by the Agency. Artificial pancreases are currently being designed and created for the treatment of diabetes type 1... Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:00 PST Chronic Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Yoga Yoga can provide more effective treatment for chronic lower back pain than more conventional methods, according to the UK's largest ever study into the benefits of yoga... Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST