Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms: News and Research on Low Back Pain

MeSH tree: C23.888.592.612.107.400

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Back pain is linked to worse sleep years later in men over 65

About half of older men suffer from sleep problems, back pain or both, according to Soomi Lee, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State. Lee recently led a study to investigate whether one ...

Overweight & Obesity

Weight gain steadily increases risk for low back pain, study finds

Low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent condition associated with disability, work loss and economic burden to health care. Significant risk factors include poor sleep, physical and psychological stress, inactivity, advanced age ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Is acupuncture worth it for back pain? New study has answers

Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet most treatments offer limited relief. One of the most divisive is acupuncture—recommended in US guidelines for lower back pain but not in the UK. A new study ...

Surgery

AI spine model could transform lower back pain treatment

Nearly 3 in 10 adults in the United States have experienced lower back pain in any three-month period, making it the most common musculoskeletal pain. Back pain remains one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, affecting ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Music therapy can ease back pain for ED visitors

Playwright William Congreve wrote in the Restoration period that music "hath charms to soothe a savage breast." And, as it turns out, back pain in 21st-century patients as well.

Neuroscience

Neurosurgeon describes 8 common myths about back pain

Back pain is common, but several myths about it persist. Meghan Murphy, M.D., a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, describes eight of them and provides the facts.

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