Spine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Acupuncture for chronic low back pain: a multicenter, randomized, patient-assessor blind, sham-controlled clinical trial.
Multicenter, randomized, patient-assessor blind, sham-controlled clinical trial. ⋯ This randomized sham-controlled trial suggests that acupuncture treatment shows better effect on the reduction of the bothersomeness and pain intensity than sham control in participants with cLBP.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Spinal high-velocity low amplitude manipulation in acute nonspecific low back pain: a double-blinded randomized controlled trial in comparison with diclofenac and placebo.
A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel trial with 3 arms. ⋯ In a subgroup of patients with acute nonspecific LBP, spinal manipulation was significantly better than nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac and clinically superior to placebo.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Neuromuscular exercise and counseling decrease absenteeism due to low back pain in young conscripts: a randomized, population-based primary prevention study.
Controlled intervention with group randomization. ⋯ These findings provide evidence that exercise and education to improve control of the lumbar neutral zone have a prophylactic effect on LPB-related off-duty service days in the military environment when implemented as part of military service among young healthy men.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Physical function outcome in cervical radiculopathy patients after physiotherapy alone compared with anterior surgery followed by physiotherapy: a prospective randomized study with a 2-year follow-up.
Prospective randomized study. ⋯ 2.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Epidural steroid injections are associated with less improvement in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: a subgroup analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.
Subgroup analysis of prospective, randomized database from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT). ⋯ Despite equivalent baseline status, ESIs were associated with significantly less improvement at 4 years among all patients with spinal stenosis in SPORT. Furthermore, ESIs were associated with longer duration of surgery and longer hospital stay. There was no improvement in outcome with ESI whether patients were treated surgically or nonsurgically.