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Effect of a Biopsychosocial Intervention or Postural Therapy on Disability and Health Care Spending in Spine Pain View LargeDownload Figure 1. Participants Evaluated, Excluded, Randomized, and Analyzed in the SPINE CARE Trial View LargeDownload SPINE CARE indicates Spine Pain Intervention to Enhance ...
Neck and back pain are among the most common causes of prolonged disability, and development of interventions with effect on pain, disability and return to work is important. Reduction of fear avoidance might be one mechanism behind improvement after interventions. The aim of the present study was...
Health status: after the intervention, a 36-item short-form scale (SF-36) was used to evaluate the health status of patients in the control group and the experimental group, including physical functioning (PF), role physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), ...
except when they are in accordance with the nerve root affected in which cases the pain could be explained. Reassuring explanations for back and leg pain and advice to gradually increase physical activity will be given to the participants. If there is no dangerous finding in the spine, the par...
Sometimes symptoms are more specific like cough, dyspnea, noisy breathing, chocking, or pleuritic chest pain, but aspiration pneumonia may also be silent, as shown in an autopsy study which demonstrated that in one-third of aspiration pneumonias, the pneumonia itself was unrecognized.50 Aspiration ...
The objective of this trial was to compare the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of ASAD in patients with subacromial pain using appropriate control groups, including placebo intervention. Methods/Design The trial is a three-group, parallel design, pragmatic, randomised controlled study. The intervention...
will outline an effectivemethod of reducing an ‘acute locked back’ when thefacet joint is implicated.PATIENT PRESENTATIONHistoryA 46-year-old female presented with right-sided lowerback pain radiating toward the buttock afterperforming arm curls with a barbell in a positionof lumbar spine flexion....
LSS is characterized anatomically by a narrow spinal canal and/or narrow nerve root foramina, resulting from degenerative changes in the spine. The most specific symptom of LSS is neurogenic claudication, which includes pain, numbness and weakness in the low back, buttocks and legs brought on by...