Sara Freeman Primary care practitioners have an important role to play in helping to diagnose people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) much sooner than is currently being achieved, according to several experts who are championing the need for the earlier diagnosis of the condition. AxSpA is an inflammatory condition of the spine and joints that often...
Tag: <span>Chronic back pain</span>
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Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, study finds
by Yoni Ashar, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most people with chronic back pain naturally think their pain is caused by injuries or other problems in the body such as arthritis or bulging disks. But our research team has found that thinking about the root cause of pain as a process that’s occurring in the...
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Diagnosing Chronic Back Pain: When to Suspect Axial Spondyloarthritis
Sara Freeman August 11, 2023 Primary care practitioners have an important role to play in helping to diagnose people with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) much sooner than is currently being achieved, according to several experts who are championing the need for the earlier diagnosis of the condition. AxSpA is an inflammatory condition of the spine and joints that...
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FDA OKs Spinal Cord Stimulation Devices for Chronic Back Pain
Megan Brooks May 16, 2023 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for Abbott Laboratories’ spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices to include treatment of chronic back pain in patients who have not had, or are not eligible for, back surgery, the company has announced. The new indication spans all of Abbott’s SCS devices in the US, which...
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Study offers fresh hope for people living with chronic back pain
by Curtin University Trial participant Volker Rehbocks and Curtin Professor Peter O’Sullivan. Credit: Curtin University Long-term sufferers of chronic back pain experienced dramatic reductions in pain and related disability that remained at their one-year follow-up after taking part in a new treatment tested by Curtin-Macquarie-Monash University research. Published today in the journal The Lancet, the research found large...
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Injectable tissue provides significant, long-term relief for chronic back pain, finds research
by The Reis Group Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A minimally invasive treatment that injects allograft disk tissue into the spine to relieve pain associated with degenerative disk disease provides significant improvement in pain and function over a sustained period, according to new research to be presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Scientific Meeting in Phoenix, March 4–9....
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Can Inversion Therapy Relieve Your Chronic Back Pain?
Written by Kim Grundy, PT | Reviewed by Sanjai Sinha, MD Published on December 14, 2022 Key takeaways: Inversion therapy is a treatment in which you are suspended upside down in order to relieve pressure on the spine. It may ease low back pain, improve flexibility, and reduce the need for surgery. You should talk...
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Chronic back pain treatment blocks nerve signals with heat
By Nick Lavars October 04, 2022 The Intracept procedure tackles lower back pain with heat via radio-frequency ablation Relievant Medsystems Persistent lower back pain is a debilitating problem for millions of people around the world, and it’s not something that is easily treated. A technology called Intracept is making waves in this space, carefully delivering...
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An effective new treatment for chronic back pain targets the nervous system
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES People challenged with chronic back pain have been given hope with a new treatment that focuses on retraining how the back and the brain communicate, a randomised controlled trial run by researchers at UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and several other Australian and European universities has shown. The...
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FDA Clears Virtual Reality System to Ease Chronic Back Pain
Megan Brooks November 16, 2021 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared EaseVRx (AppliedVR), an immersive virtual reality (VR) system that uses the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy and other behavioral therapy techniques to reduce pain and pain interference in adults with chronic lower back pain. “Millions of adults in the United States are...
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