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Filter by:Recurrent and persistent low back pain (LBP) is a massive problem in Canada that causes a substantial pain, disability, cost, and even premature death. The good news is that treatments for recurrent and persistent LBP are available. Many guidelines now recommend education and exercise as the best intervention for chronic LBP. Unfortunately, education and exercise programs are not publicly funded in Canada-only Canadians with extended health benefits can access these programs. As a result, the 50% of Canadians who do not have extended health benefits often seek care for LBP from their publicly funded physicians. Physicians, in turn, have little choice but to reach for what they have available, including opioids, x-rays and referrals to specialists. Not only are these interventions unhelpful for chronic LBP, they are often harmful, sometimes deadly, and disproportionately affect lower socio-economic status households. A possible solution to this problem exists in a validated app (SelfBack) that provides tailored self-management plans consisting of advice on physical activity, physical exercises, and educational content. Tailoring of treatment plans to individuals is achieved by using case-based reasoning (CBR) methodology which is a branch of artificial intelligence. This study will evaluate the feasibility of distributing the SelfBack app to persons experiencing LBP through their chiropractors. The results of this study will help us understand the barriers and facilitators of distributing and using the app through Alberta Chiropractors. This information will be used to apply for funding for a larger study to understand the effectiveness of the app as an intervention for persistent and recurrent LBP.
Lumbar facet joints have been implicated in chronic low back pain in over 45% of patients with isolated chronic common low back pain. Low back pain is the most common form of spinal pain, more chronic and severe than cancer pain. The annual prevalence of chronic low back pain ranges from 15% to 45% (one-off prevalence, 30%; lifetime prevalence, 54-80%). Because of this extremely high incidence, doctors from a wide range of specialities perform interventional techniques in a variety of settings. Facet joints have long been recognised as a source of back pain. In 1911, Goldthwait first recognised their role as a potential source of back pain. In 1933, Ghormley introduced the term "facet syndrome", defining lumbosacral pain with or without radicular pain. Badgley later suggested that facet joints could be a primary source of pain independently of spinal nerve compression. They demonstrated the role of posterior facet joints (PFJs) in a large number of patients with low back pain whose symptoms were not caused by a herniated disc. The underlying physiological concept of the PJF was introduced by Hirsch et al in 1963. They demonstrated that injecting a hypertonic saline solution into the region of the facet joints caused pain. The management of chronic low back pain due to zygapophyseal involvement (lumbar facet joints) consists primarily of conservative treatment. This is based on analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy and weight loss, where appropriate. Other non-surgical options may be proposed, including glucocorticoid injections into the facet joints. Glucocorticoid injections, which act by reducing inflammation, are commonly used in routine care to treat spinal pain. This pain may be due to a variety of pathologies, including discogenic or facet-related, or mixed, ligamentous or muscular, linked to a regional or global disorder of spinal statics. They are commonly used as a standard treatment for chronic spinal pain. Traditionally, in routine clinical practice, if there is significant paravertebral contracture and the clinical signs point to posterior joint involvement, a glucocorticoid injection is given in the doctor's surgery at the time of consultation, using anatomical landmarks to guide needle placement. However, few studies have demonstrated the efficacy of anatomical marking for infiltration of posterior joints, notably Cohen et al. Sui's systematic review of the use of this technique. With the advent of new imaging modalities such as ultrasound, more and more practitioners are turning to image-guided injections. To date, only the fluoroscopy-guided technique is considered reliable for facet joint infiltration. In order to improve the clinical efficacy of the various interventional therapeutic solutions, some authors have supported the use of ultrasound guidance. Several studies have been published comparing ultrasound-guided infiltration and infiltration using anatomical location in the shoulder region, the iliopsoas and in epicondilitis. While ultrasound guidance in areas such as the iliopsoas or the shoulder seems useful, it has not yet been proven that guidance is advantageous in spinal areas, such as the facet joints. To our knowledge, no randomised, methodologically sound study has yet been carried out to compare the benefit of ultrasound-guided infiltration versus infiltration with anatomical location. The aim of our study is to show that ultrasound-guided zygoapophyseal infiltration is superior to anatomically-guided infiltration in terms of pain assessment.
Registry is to observe and trend patterns of care and outcomes for patients treated with VIA Disc NP.
Within the scope of this research, a single session of Wearable Technological Device (Exopulse Molli-Suit) will be applied to patients with chronic back and neck pain. The results will be evaluated acutely, after 24 hours, after 1 week and after 1 month.
According to the information obtained from clinical studies, it has been stated that Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) is associated with chronic low back pain (LBP). In this study, participants will be divided into two groups. Only Rocabado's exercise will be given to the Rocabado's group (RG), and Rocabado's and therapeutic lumbar exercises will be given to the therapeutic group (TG). Warm-up exercises will be given before starting the exercises with the therapeutic group, and cool-down exercises will be given after the exercises with the therapeutic group. At the end of the sixth week, the effect of therapeutic lumbar exercises on TMD pain and function will be evaluated.
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The intervention involved two groups participating in supervised Pilates sessions, twice a week for 8 weeks, featuring a mix of mat and props-based exercises. Group 1 received additional cueing training to enhance alignment, muscle engagement, and movement technique, while Group 2 underwent the same Pilates regimen without this cueing component.
The aim of this randomized controlled trial was to explore the clinical efficacy and safety of HXTL in the treatment of NSLBP based on TCM principles and to compare the clinical outcomes of different syndromes of NSLBP with celecoxib.In this study, 80 patients with NSLBP were recruited and randomly grouped to use TCM compound and celeoxib respectively for intervention. The pain status and lumbar function use scale of patients were scored before intervention, 1 week, 2 weeks and 3 weeks after intervention, and the adverse reactions of patients after medication were recorded, and the clinical efficacy of the two groups of patients was compared finally.
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the number of chronic diseases, the treatment burden resulting from multimorbidity, and health-related quality of life contribute to non-response bias in individuals with chronic back pain. Data is collected from patients at Aalborg University Hospital's Rheumatology Department through electronic means and medical records. The statistical analyses consist of two wave analyses, where we examine differences between patients who respond to invitations to participate in the study based on their response patterns; whether they respond after the first, second, or third invitation. Based on baseline data, a one-way ANOVA is conducted to identify any between-group differences in the aforementioned factors, followed by a repeated measures ANOVA to assess if there are differences between the groups over time. Finally, statistical tests are also performed to examine differences in age and gender distribution between those who complete the questionnaires at baseline compared to those who do not respond to the invitation to participate.
Low back pain is considered one of the great global challenges in public health due to its high prevalence. Exercise have been shown to cause an increase in pain thresholds, through the effect known as exercise-induced hypoalgesia. Little is known about exercise-induced hypoalgesia induced by different modalities of exercise in low back pain, and its possible effects in lumbopelvic biomechanics. The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effect of exercise-induced hypoalgesia after an isometric, aerobic and a sham/ placebo exercise in non-specific low back pain. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Does an isometric exercise intervention cause exercise-induced hypoalgesia in non-specific low back pain patients? - Is the effect of an isometric exercise intervention comparable to that of aerobic exercise? - Is a placebo/ sham intervention also effective to reduce pain thresholds in these patients? - Do healthy subjects show the same effects in pain thresholds as low back pain patients ? Participants will perform an isometric, aerobic and placebo/ sham exercise intervention in three different recording sessions. Before and after the interventions, pain intensity, pain-pressure thresholds and lumbopelvic biomechanical parameters during trunk flexion-extension will be recorded. Researchers will compare a group of low back pain patients to an age-, gender- and anthropometrics-matched control group of pain-free subjects to see if exercise-induced hypoalgesia is also observed when there is no low back pain diagnosis.