By Rich Haridy November 16, 2021 A system designed to reduce chronic lower back pain combines a VR system with an accompanying eight-week program of daily experiences based on cognitive behavioral therapy principlesAppliedVR The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a first-of-its-kind virtual reality (VR) system designed to help reduce chronic lower back...
Megan Brooks October 06, 2021 Psychological therapy that changes an individual’s beliefs about pain not only provides lasting chronic pain relief but also alters brain regions related to pain generation, new research shows. In the first randomized controlled test of pain reprocessing therapy (PRT), two thirds of patients with chronic back pain (CBP) who received 4 weeks...
BOSTON – Chronic back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide. In the United States, patients spend up to $300 billion each year to treat the condition, according to a 2012 study published in the Journal of Pain. However, common therapies such as surgery and steroid injections intended to address physical origins of back pain have not been clearly proven to work in randomized clinical trials, and a growing body of evidence suggests...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress team of researchers from several institutions in the U.S. has found a link between the onset of chronic back pain and changes to the nucleus accumbens in the brain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of volunteers with...
Ryan Basore spent years struggling with backaches. The 42-year-old tried everything he could think of to alleviate his pain — from regular massages to yoga and swimming — but nothing helped. “The pain I was experiencing became a way of life,” he says. “I worked to get my muscles loose every day.” Little did the East Lansing,...
Lower back pain affects around 28 million people in the US plainpicture A stem cell treatment could finally bring relief to millions of people with chronic lower back pain. If it works, the injection could become a crucial tool for curbing the opioid epidemic currently killing thousands in the US. Overdoses from prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999,...
