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Special Report: Overtesting and Overdiagnosis: A Problem... : Emergency Medicine News

Special Report: Overtesting and Overdiagnosis: A Problem... : Emergency Medicine News

You could call it 150 shades of gray, and few radiologists would disagree. But to Jerome Hoffman, MD, some imaging studies are black and white, and even put emergency physicians in situations that can increase patient risk. And he is taking such tests to

Chronic pain can be treated — so why are millions still suffering?

Chronic pain can be treated — so why are millions still suffering?

Photography by Sam Murphy and Kevin Mohatt for Nature The science is building and viable treatments are available. But millions of people with chronic pain are still without help. This article is also available as a pdf version . Philip Kass spends 90% of his

40 Best Back Pain Blogs and Websites in 2023

40 Best Back Pain Blogs and Websites in 2023

Here are 40 Best Back Pain Blogs you should follow in 2023 Nottingham, England, UK Covers news on health, lifestyle, wellbeing, treatments, reviews and tips on chronic pain. The author of the blog started the blog to help others who have spinal problem, back

Association between physical activity, sedentary behaviour and the trajectory of low back pain

Association between physical activity, sedentary behaviour and the trajectory of low back pain

ScienceDirect Association between physical activity, sedentary behaviour and the trajectory of low back pain Author links open overlay panel Meiyi Huo 1 ABSTRACT Background Low back pain (LBP) is one of the world's most prevalent health issues. Patients with

Association of Lumbar MRI Findings with Current and Future... : Spine

Association of Lumbar MRI Findings with Current and Future... : Spine

Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide resulting in $US135billion health care spending each year in the United States and >€40billion in Germany. Most patients with low back pain (LBP) have nonspecific LBP, a term

Understanding the Lived Experience of Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence Syntheses

Understanding the Lived Experience of Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence Syntheses

Background: Although multiple measures of the causes and consequences of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) are available and can inform pain management, no quantitative summary of these measures can describe the meaning of pain for a patient. The lived

 Recognising pain sensitivity in the clinic

Recognising pain sensitivity in the clinic

In Part 1 of this series we agreed that pain sensitivity is an important consideration for all physiotherapists in clinical practice. Pain sensitivity may alter a person’s response to treatment, can help patients make sense of their own conditions, could

Impact of spinal cord stimulation on sick leave and... : PAIN

Impact of spinal cord stimulation on sick leave and... : PAIN

bDepartment of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden cAkademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden dDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden eStockholm Center for Spine Surgery (RKC),

Diagnostic tests not recommended “just to be on the safe side”

Diagnostic tests not recommended “just to be on the safe side”

Imagine that you contact your GP because you have back pain. You want to have your back examined and so you request an MRI. The GP knows that if the pain has lasted less than four to six weeks and you are not experiencing certain warning symptoms, then

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