Category: Back Pain & Sciatica
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Office Employees Should Shift Their Posture Often For Relief
Office employees who sit in an office all day are advised to shift their posture in order to buffer the effects on perceived discomfort at the neck, shoulder, upper back and lower back. ~ Dr. Broussard Effects of Postural Shifting Frequency on Perceived Musculoskeletal Discomfort During 1-Hour Sitting in Office Workers Journal of Manipulative &…
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Non-Opioid Management of New Onset Back Pain
In an article published in the Journal of Orthopedic Research, the authors found that muscle relaxants and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were effective in reducing new onset back pain and disability. The combination of NSAIDs and Tylenol was better than NSIADs alone, and Tylenol by itself wasn’t much help. ~ Dr. Broussard Nonopioid pharmacological management…
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Chiropractic Technique May Improve Disc Related Low Back Pain
In an article published in SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, an author from Logan University, a chiropractic college, found that by using MRI spectroscopy, they could quantify both structural and biochemical improvements in patients with disc related back pain using the Cox Technique of chiropractic treatments.. ~ Dr. Broussard Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Displays the Structural and…
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We’re Treating Low Back Pain All Wrong
— Let’s reexamine the current approach to treatment by Christine Goertz, DC, PhD April 14, 2023 In December 2019, I attended a National Academies of Sciences workshop on the role of non-pharmacological approaches to pain management. At the end of the meeting, as expected, panelists concluded that more research was needed. However, to my surprise, several scientists…
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Teens Using Smartphones for More Than 3 Hours a Day Have More Back Pain
Published April 7, 2023 | Originally published on MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events Thanks to the popularization of smartphones and tablets, and the multiplication of video channels, computer games and educational apps, children and adolescents are spending more and more time looking at screens, usually with bad posture, which can cause back pain, among other problems. A…
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Chiropractic Treatment Included in Evidence-Based Guidelines To The World Health Organization
Chiropractic treatment that includes spinal manipulation, is included in the evidence-based recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines to inform the World Health Organization Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation for people with lower back pain with and without radiculopathy (sciatica). ~ Dr. Broussard A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Persons With Non-specific Low Back…
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Back Braces: Elastic vs Inelastic
This paper published in the journal SPINE, compared elastic vs inelastic back supports in 300 nurses aged 20-25 years old. These nurses wore the supports for 6 months, and the follow up was an additional 6 months. In the end, the authors concluded that there was no difference in preventing back pain or did the…
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Have chronic low back pain? Try meditation
Published April 27, 2022 | Originally published on Keck School of Medicine of USC – Research News Millions of people suffer from chronic low back pain around the country. It’s a common condition that can keep people from doing the things they want to do, and it can have a negative impact on one’s overall…
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Back Pain Is Processed In The Brain – Psychological Treatment Helps Change Perception of Pain
In a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry, the authors found that when they worked with chronic back pain patients from a psychological position, it seemed to help. ~ Dr. Broussard Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Chronic Back Pain Published in Primary Care Journal Scan /…
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Association Between Sleep Disturbance and Low Back Pain
After an earthquake in Japan, the authors of a study published in the journal SPINE, followed people who had sleep disturbances because of the natural disaster. They found that lower back pain was associated with sleep disturbances. The more sleep lost, the more the association with back pain. ~ Dr. Broussard Association Between Sleep Disturbance…