Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/back-pain/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241026.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241026.phpBack 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...Back Pain Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240971.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240971.php 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)...Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239471.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239471.phpEven 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...Back Pain Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239196.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239196.phpGuidelines 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...Back Pain Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239145.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239145.phpPeople 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...Back Pain Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239142.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239142.phpResearchers 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...Back Pain Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239128.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239128.phpAccording 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...Back Pain Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239070.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239070.phpJohns 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...Back Pain Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238549.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238549.phpA 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...Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236902.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236902.phpYoga 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...Back Pain Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236868.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236868.phpOver Long Term, Yoga Trumps Usual Care for Improving Back Function in Patients Suffering from Low Back Pain In the largest and longest study of its kind published to date, more than 300 patients were followed for one year. Chronic or recurrent back pain cost the U.S. health care system billions of dollars each year, and is one of the most common reasons people visit their doctor...Back Pain Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236598.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236598.php A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. Symptoms included pain, function, general health, work status and patient satisfaction...Back Pain Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236530.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236530.phpYoga classes were linked to better back-related function and diminished symptoms from chronic low back pain in the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga to date, published by the Archives of Internal Medicine as an "Online First" article on October 24. But so were intensive stretching classes...Back Pain Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236516.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236516.phpNew research from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation may help explain why people with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a higher risk of developing heart disease...Heart Disease Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236484.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236484.phpIndividuals who attend yoga classes have better results for chronic low back pain symptoms compared to those using a self-care book, researchers from Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, reported in Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors added that they also experienced superior improvement in function...Back Pain Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236308.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/236308.phpOsteoporosis is blamed for backbone fractures. The real culprit could well be our own vertebrae, which evolved to absorb the pounding of upright walking, researchers at Case Western Reserve University say. Compared to apes, humans have larger, more porous vertebrae encased in a much thinner shell of bone...Bones / Orthopedics Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235379.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235379.phpA research team from the University of Leicester say they have discovered the nerve cells in the brain that are responsible for coping with stress. Neuroscientists seem to have made an important move forwards in their understanding of stress and the brain's role in mitigating its impact...Psychology / Psychiatry Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235270.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235270.php New research that compares a more tailored or stratified management of back pain by general practitioners (GPs) in primary care with the current "one size fits all" standard approach finds it could be more effective for patients and also cost less. You can read how the UK-based trial came to this conclusion in the 29 September online issue of The Lancet...Back Pain Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235031.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/235031.php Many patients suffering from chronic pain try alternative and complementary treatments as these are often viewed as natural and therefore risk-free. Prof. Edzard Ernst (Exeter, UK) warned at the EFIC Congress 'Pain in Europe VII' that patients are being bombarded with misinformation on the subject but that in fact very few alternative pain treatments are supported by well-founded evidence...Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/234718.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/234718.phpMove if you have back pain, this is the advice of a researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. Patients with acute low back pain who were advised to stay active despite the pain fared better than those who were told to adjust their activity in line with their pain. The thesis looked at 109 patients with acute severe lowback pain...Back Pain Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233831.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233831.phpWhile backpacks are an essential and stylish way for children to express their personal taste as they head back to school, these over-the-shoulder carriers for books, lunches and supplies can also injure a child's back. Dr...Back Pain Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233161.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233161.phpMillions of children returning to school this fall will struggle under the weight of an overstuffed backpack, putting themselves at risk of injury, according to Dr. Joshua Hyman, director of orthopedic surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. "Parents should inspect their child's backpack from time to time...Back Pain Sat, 13 Aug 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232702.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232702.phpRelievant Medsystems, Inc. announced the company has received Food and Drug Administration approval of an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to begin their SMART pivotal trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Intracept® System for treatment of chronic low back pain...Back Pain Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232332.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232332.phpAbout 80% of the active population suffers from low back pain at some point in their lives...Back Pain Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232163.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232163.phpFinancial and domestic problems for workers -- particularly those who are African-American, have lower incomes, or are younger than 35 -- get progressively worse in the years after they have settled claims for painful, on-the-job back injuries, a new Saint Louis University study finds. "There are many casualties in the current system...Back Pain