Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea; (Bio)medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea; Institute of Translational Dental Sciences & Dental Research Institute, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea. Electronic address: Omsljy@pusan.ac.kr.
Pain Research, MSk Lab, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany.
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Münster, Germany.
Department of Neurophysiology, Mannheim Center for Translational Neuroscience MCTN, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany.
INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France.
INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France.
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common reasons for consultation in general practice. Currently, LBP is categorised into specific and non-specific causes. However, extravertebral causes, such as...
A systematic literature search was performed across MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane library, complemented by a handsearch. Studies conducted between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2020, where LBP wa...
The literature search identified 6040 studies, from which duplicates were removed, leaving 4105 studies for title and abstract screening. Subsequently, 265 publications were selected for inclusion, wi...
Prior to this review, there has been no systematic investigation into extravertebral causes of LBP. Although these causes are rare, the absence of robust and reliable epidemiological data hinders a co...
The differential diagnosis of extravertebral LBP is extensive with relatively low prevalence rates dependent on the clinical setting. Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for extravert...
Despite clinicians being important actors in the context of uncertainty, their experiences navigating uncertainty remain largely unexplored. Drawing on a theory-driven post-qualitative approach, we us...
Chronic low back pain can impact cognitive function. Patient can have decreased problem-solving abilities, decreased speed of information processing, and delayed memory in addition to the development ...
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a surgical intervention used to treat persistent low back pain. SCS is thought to modulate pain by sending electrical signals via implanted electrodes into the spinal ...
To assess the effects, including benefits and harms, of SCS for people with low back pain....
On 10 June 2022, we searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, Embase, and one other database for published trials. We also searched three clinical trials registers for ongoing trials....
We included all randomised controlled trials and cross-over trials comparing SCS with placebo or no treatment for low back pain. The primary comparison was SCS versus placebo, at the longest time poin...
We used standard methodological procedures expected by Cochrane....
We included 13 studies with 699 participants: 55% of participants were female; mean age ranged from 47 to 59 years; and all participants had chronic low back pain with mean duration of symptoms rangin...
Data in this review do not support the use of SCS to manage low back pain outside a clinical trial. Current evidence suggests SCS probably does not have sustained clinical benefits that would outweigh...
The purpose of this review is to highlight the role of exercise in preventing and managing acute and chronic axial low back pain (LBP). LBP is one of the leading contributors to years lived with disab...
Low back pain (LBP) is a major cause of disease burden around the world. There is known clinical variation in how LBP is treated and addressed; with one cited reason the lack of availability, or use o...
We used online web search and snowballing methods to collate a repository of LBP policy documents collectively called 'directives' including Models of Care (MOC), information sheets, clinical tools, g...
Eighty-four directives were included in our analysis. Of those, 55 were information sheets aimed at either healthcare providers or patients, nine were clinical tools, three were reports, four were gui...
Directives have the potential to inform practice and to contribute to reducing evidence-policy-practice discordance. Documents in our repository demonstrate that while a range of directives exist acro...
Among those with low back pain (LBP), individuals with chronic LBP (CLBP) face different treatment recommendations and incur the majority of suffering and costs. However, the way CLBP has been defined...
Treating low back pain (LBP) often involves a combination of pharmacologic, nonpharmacologic, and interventional treatments; one approach is acupuncture therapy, which is safe, effective, and cost-eff...
To document trends in reimbursed acupuncture between 2010 and 2019 among a large sample of patients with LBP, focusing on demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical characteristics associated with acupu...
This cross-sectional study included insurance claims of US adults in a deidentified database. The study sample included patients diagnosed with LBP between 2010 and 2019. Data were analyzed between Se...
Changes in rates of reimbursed acupuncture utilization between 2010 and 2019, including electroacupuncture use, which involves the electrical stimulation of acupuncture needles. Covariates included ag...
The total sample included 6 840 497 adults with LBP (mean [SD] age, 54.6 [17.8] years; 3 916 766 female [57.3%]; 802 579 Hispanic [11.7%], 258 087 non-Hispanic Asian [3.8%], 804 975 non-Hispanic Black...
In this cross-sectional study, we found that acupuncture utilization among patients with LBP was rare but increased over time. Demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical characteristics were associated ...
Non-specific low back pain is a common, potentially disabling condition usually treated with self-care and non-prescription medication. For chronic low back pain, current guidelines recommend exercise...
To evaluate the benefits and harms of yoga for treating chronic non-specific low back pain in adults compared to sham yoga, no specific treatment, a minimal intervention (e.g. education), or another a...
We used standard, extensive Cochrane search methods. The latest search date was 31 August 2021 without language or publication status restrictions....
We included randomized controlled trials of yoga compared to sham yoga, no intervention, any other intervention and yoga added to other therapies....
We followed standard Cochrane methods. Our major outcomes were 1. back-specific function, 2. pain, 3. clinical improvement, 4. mental and physical quality of life, 5. depression, and 6....
Our minor outcome was 1. work disability. We used GRADE to assess certainty of evidence for the major outcomes....
We included 21 trials (2223 participants) from the USA, India, the UK, Croatia, Germany, Sweden, and Turkey. Participants were recruited from both clinical and community settings. Most were women in t...
There is low- to moderate-certainty evidence that yoga compared to no exercise results in small and clinically unimportant improvements in back-related function and pain. There is probably little or n...
The primary purpose of this study was to determine internal consistency and concurrent validity of the Golf-specific Low Back Pain questionnaire (GLBP)....
Cross-sectional study....
Online questionnaire....
Fifty-two adult golfers with a history of LBP....
GLBP, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)....
Cronbach alpha values for the GLBP and its 3 subscales. Pearson correlations between the ODI, GLBP, and the GLBP subscales....
Cronbach alpha for the GLBP was 0.94. Cronbach alpha for the 3 GLBP subscales ranged from 0.85 to 0.91. All Pearson correlations were significant at P < 0.05. The correlation between the ODI and GLBP ...
The GLBP has excellent concurrent validity to quantify LBP in golfers. The GLBP total and each individual subscale have excellent internal consistency and a moderate inverse relationship with the ODI....
Clinicians should consider using sport-specific outcome measures when evaluating for LBP-related disability....
