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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: back pain + back + pain  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

New type of therapy battles back pain
Arizona Republic, AZ -
This method is a spine-specific form of physical therapy that is used for patients with back or leg pain due to herniated disks. ...

Ottawa Citizen
Putting his back into it
Ottawa Citizen,  Canada -
The success of both projects depends, though, on the health of his back. "The last four months I've had severe back pain," Willows said in an interview last ...
The Stahler Inflation Pain Index Helps Consumers Understand the ...
FOXBusiness - 35 minutes ago
In the first quarter of 2008, the average Inflation Pain Index rose to 123, the highest level recorded in three years. Back in 2005, the average Pain Index ...
Helton has MRI on troublesome back
MLB.com -
He began hitting off a tee and participating in short toss a few days ago, but he suffered a major setback when his back pain flared shortly afterward. ...
Weightlifter pushed through herniated disk, failed comebacks
USA Today -
She started a comeback after his birth, but had to stop because of her back pain. Tests showed fragments had broken off the disk. ...
Reborn, right down to his core
Chicago Tribune, United States -
What a welcome sight it is for the Bears to see their defensive centerpiece running and hitting without pain. Urlacher's back could stiffen at some point, ...
New psychological techniques ease pain
Buffalo News,  United States - 35 minutes ago
Researchers have dramatically shown that CBT can be as effective in treating chronic lower back pain as lumbar spinal fusion, a major surgical procedure. ...
Bucs running back Cadillac Williams progressing in comeback bid
The Canadian Press,  Fla. -
I mean severe, severe pain," Williams said. "I heard something pop. I said, 'This is not good."' The Bucs placed the 26-year-old on PUP on the first day of ...
Anderson feeling the pain of penalty
Calgary Herald,  Canada -
The Calgary Stampeders defensive back stood up and took the blame for his foolish piling-on penalty late in the first quarter that deposited the ...
Sheller injury leaves him, UCLA in pain
Long Beach Press-Telegram, CA -
"Coach Neuheisel was like, `You're going to come back,' but coach Palcic was mad. I kind of feel like I let him down. Everybody was counting on me, ...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain -
MC Jensen, MN Brant-Zawadzki, N Obuchowski, MT … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1994 - content.nejm.org
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain. Maureen
C. Jensen, Michael N. Brant-Zawadzki, Nancy Obuchowski, Michael T. Modic ...

… Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and … -
G Waddell, M Newton, I Henderson, D Somerville, CJ … - Pain, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Click here to read A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of
fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability. ...

… of Back Pain: Part I: Development of a Reliable and Sensitive Measure of Disability in Low-Back Pain … -
M ROLAND, R MORRIS - Spine, 1983 - spinejournal.com
ARTICLE LINKS: PDF (319 K). A Study of the Natural History of Back Pain: Part I:
Development of a Reliable and Sensitive Measure of Disability in Low-Back Pain. ...

The Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire.
JC Fairbank, J Couper, JB Davies, JP O'Brien - Physiotherapy, 1980 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Physiotherapy. 1980 Aug;66(8):271-3. The Oswestry low back pain disability
questionnaire. Fairbank JC, Couper J, Davies JB, O'Brien JP. ...

The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: relationship to patient … -
AK Rosenstiel, FJ Keefe - Pain, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: relationship to
patient characteristics and current adjustment. Rosenstiel AK, Keefe FJ. ...

Epidemiological features of chronic low-back pain. -
GB Andersson - Lancet, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lancet. 1999 Aug 14;354(9178):581-5. Click here to read Epidemiological
features of chronic low-back pain. Andersson GB. Department ...

The Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain--Bed Rest, Exercises, or Ordinary Activity? -
A Malmivaara, U Hakkinen, T Aro, ML Heinrichs, L … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1995 - content.nejm.org
... Next Next. The Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain ? Bed Rest, Exercises, or Ordinary
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… is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain … -
G Crombez, JW Vlaeyen, PH Heuts, R Lysens - Pain, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pain. 1999 Mar;80(1-2):329-39. Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself:
evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability. ...

An overview of the incidences and costs of low back pain. -
JW Frymoyer, WL Cats-Baril - Orthop Clin North Am, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Orthop Clin North Am. 1991 Apr;22(2):263-71. An overview of the incidences
and costs of low back pain. Frymoyer JW, Cats-Baril WL. ...

Fear of movement/(re) injury in chronic low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance. -
JW Vlaeyen, AM Kole-Snijders, RG Boeren, H van Eek - Pain, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pain. 1995 Sep;62(3):363-72. Click here to read Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic
low back pain and its relation to behavioral performance. ...

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Advice, Devices Ineffective In Preventing Worker Back Pain
Back pain is the number one cause of worker-compensation complaints, second only to the common cold in causing lost workdays. Consequently, employers and regulators have pushed training programs to teach specific lifting methods, and some recommend or require the use of assistive devices such as hoists for hospital workers. However, a new review of the research on lifting advice and handling devices has found that they do not prevent work-related back pain.

"According to the studies we have so far, it seems that this is not effective," said lead author Kari-Pekka Martimo, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki.
He and his colleagues examined data from more than 18,000 employees in 11 studies. Some studies looked at advice or assistive devices alone and some looked at combining both, but the combinations did not prove effective either.

The review appears in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic.

The advice and devices did not prevent back pain or reduce disability claims or sick leave.

According to Martimo, one explanation for the negative findings could be that "safer" lifting techniques do not really exist so teaching particular tactics would be unlikely to help. "Another possibility is that elevated risk for back pain might not be related to lifting or moving heavy objects themselves, but to other aspects of work," he said. High stress, for example, might link jobs that require lifting to back pain, rather than the lifting itself.

Alternatively, it could be that the teaching is the problem and that workers do not actually adopt better habits. However, the studies looked at many different training methods and did not find any to have a particular advantage. "I don't think it's lack of adequate teaching methods," Martimo said. One complication of considering that there is a "correct" lifting technique that employees should adopt is that "when an employee has back pain, there's a tendency to blame the victim because he didn't [use the techniques or devices] correctly."

"This study confirms that much of what is happening at the workplace is well-intentioned but probably pointless," said Christopher Maher, associate professor of physiotherapy at the University of Sydney in Australia. "We had a pretty good idea that this was the case but this study really does confirm that we need to take a fresh look at the problem," said Maher, who was not involved with the study.
"The frustrating thing is that government bodies and employers concentrate on things that do not work, [such as] back belts, education, lifting devices, workplace redesign and no-lift policies, and ignore the only known effective intervention exercise," Maher added. "We also know that exercise has health benefits beyond prevention of back pain, so you are getting two health benefits (or more) for the price of one."

Martino concluded, "We need more studies and evidence on the chain of events between certain jobs and an elevated risk of back pain. We do not know enough about that chain yet."

Martimo KP, et al. Manual material handling advice and assistive devices for preventing and treating back pain in workers (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007, Issue 3.

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit, independent organization that produces and disseminates systematic reviews of health care interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. Visit http://www.cochrane.org for more information.

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