9 months ago
New animal model to help diagnose and treat sciatica
Washington, April 30 - A new animal model developed by researchers for the painful nerve condition sciatica should help doctors diagnose and treat it, according to a new study. Its symptoms are numbness or pain from the lower back to the feet, radiating leg pain or difficulty in controlling the leg. It is often caused by compression, or pinching, of any of the five nerve roots that combine to ma ... read more

1 year ago
Secret of Sarkozy's stamina: alternative therapy
London, Jan 11 - The secret of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's boundless energy lies in an alternative therapist who massages his back and sends him 'positive energy waves', according to a new book on the man known as the 'hyper-president'. Sarkozy, who will be 54 later this month, has been treated by therapist Jean-Paul Moureau - known by his patients as 'Moureau the guru' - for 15 years wit ... read more

2 years ago
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell spine surgeon first to use AxiaLIF spine surgery in Manhattan
NEW YORK - -- Each year, 40 to 60 percent of American adults suffer from chronic back pain. More than one million spine surgery procedures are performed annually, with medical costs to treat back pain approaching $24 billion per year. With age and injury, discs located between the vertebrae in the spine might eventually wear-down -- a process termed degenerative disc disease. Due to the lack of ... read more

Philadelphia | 2 years ago
ACP and APS issue comprehensive guidelines for treating low-back pain
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 2007 - The American College of Physicians - and the American Pain Society - today released joint guidelines on diagnosing and treating low back pain.About one in four Americans reported having low back pain in the past three months and about l7.6 percent of all adults reported at least one episode of severe acute low back pain within the previous year, according to several st ... read more

Hanover | 2 years ago
Second SPORT study shows surgery advantage for spinal stenosis and slipped verte
Hanover, NH – In one of the three most common back conditions for which patients seek treatment, surgery proved to have substantially better results than non-surgical remedies, according to Dartmouth-led research published in the May 31 New England Journal of Medicine. The paper is the second in a series detailing the findings of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial -, a seven-year, $21 mill ... read more

3 years ago
Pet owners are sick more often and exercise less than other working-aged people
A common perception is that pet owner is a young person who is full of action, exercises a lot, and actively plays with a pet, particularly with a dog. The reality is different, however.The association of pet ownership and health of working aged Finns - was studied at the University of Turku as part of a large research project entitled Health and Social Support -. The findings were published in PL ... read more

3 years ago
Randomized study indicates that patients with herniated disk improved with or wi
Patients with lumbar disk herniation who had surgery or nonoperative treatments showed similar levels of improvement in the reduction of pain over a 2-year period, according to a randomized trial in the November 22/29 issue of JAMA. In all cases patients who had surgery did slightly better.Lumbar diskectomy - is the most common surgical procedure performed in the United States for patients having ... read more

3 years ago
Backache beaten by good vibrations?
University of Manchester researchers are recruiting people with backache caused by nerve root pain – commonly known as sciatica – in the first ever study to discover if therapeutic ultrasound can help their condition.Dr Christopher McCarthy and his team at the University's Centre for Rehabilitation Science need 30 volunteers aged 22-55 who have had sciatica for less than 12 weeks, are not pregnant ... read more

3 years ago
New treatment for back pain
The new table enables the treatment of problems of the spinal column, in the lumbar region, where there is acute and/or chronic pain caused by disc hernias, degeneration of the discs, posterior facet syndrome, discoarthrosis and sciaticas. The treatment uses an exclusive system for the decompression of the intervertebral discs and the vertebral articulations, thus enabling the introduction of the ... read more

10 years ago
Molecular repair of ruptured discs
When low back pain strikes and the diagnosis is a ruptured disc, some patients face surgery while others recover without treatment. Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators trying to understand how some herniated discs repair themselves have now discovered an intricate interplay of molecular signals. Their findings, reported in the January 15th Journal of Clinical Investigation, ... read more