Tag Archive for: mechanical back pain

Back Pain Management : Treatment Key Points
Back Pain: The Summary of Recommendations for treatment from the most up to date Clinical Practice Guidelines.
This document provides a simplification of why we do certain treatments for Low Back Pain. It compares the power of the evidence…

Back Pain : What to do for Acute Pain?
This paper is fresh off the press and highlights the intersection of pharmaceutical management alongside the the treatments that we provide for Acute pain. It's often so hard to know what to do and this paper gives large scale research to help…

Low Back Pain Guidelines for Patients
Back Pain : Perspectives for patients
One of the biggest challenges that clinicians face is to make treatment practical. There is overwhelming evidence that activity when there is back pain is most often helpful to reduce symptoms and expedite…

Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines
Back Pain: The full report
If you are like us, you likely want to know the reasons behind the decision making process. Transparency is always key in this type of process. This publication on lower back pain is the most recent research (End…

Back Pain for Athletes… and Workers
Did you know? Back pain affects everyone!
3 Up to 9 in every 10 Olympic athletes experience LBP in their lifetime; at any 1 time, up to 2 in every 3 athletes might be experiencing LBP.
Low back pain (LBP) is common in the general and…

Recommendations for Neck Pain and Upper Back Pain- What works and what doesn’t
Neck Pain and Upper Back Pain ( What works, what doesn't)
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Medical Specialty Society. 2011
Table 1. Summary of Recommendations for Diagnostic and Other Testing for Cervical and Thoracic…

Back Pain: The fast facts
What Is Back Pain? Fast Facts: An Easy-to-Read Series of Publications for the Public
http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Back_Pain/back_pain_ff.asp
Back pain can range from a dull, constant ache to a sudden, sharp pain that makes it hard…

Handout on Back Pain from the National institute of health
Handout on Health: Back Pain
http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Back_Pain/default.asp
This publication is for people who have back pain, as well as family members, friends, and others who want to find out more about it. The publication describes…

Neck Pain- Causes, Solutions, Prevention
Neck pain is discomfort in any of the structures in the neck. These include the muscles, nerves, bones (vertebrae), and the disks between the bones.
Considerations
When your neck is sore, you may have difficulty moving it, especially turning…

The Low Down on Low Back Pain
If you have lower back pain, you are not alone. Nearly everyone at some point has back pain that interferes with work, routine daily activities, or recreation. Americans spend at least $50 billion each year on low back pain, the most…