Articles: back-pain.
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Case report OBJECTIVE.: To report a case of foreign body mimicking spinal tumor. ⋯ 4.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Anterior Trunk Mobility Does Not Predict Disability in Elderly Women with Acute Low Back Pain: Brazilian Back Complaints in the Elders (BACE-Brazil) Study Results.
Cross-sectional, ancillary study of an international multicenter epidemiological study. ⋯ N/A.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Do occupational Risks for Low Back Pain Differ from Risks for Specific Lumbar Disc Diseases? Results of the German Lumbar Spine Study (EPILIFT).
A multicenter, population based, case-control study. ⋯ 4.
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Interdisciplinary pain therapy is nowadays the state of the art for the treatment of chronic unspecific back pain. The aim of this article is to present the retrospective analysis of the data from a 1-week intensive outpatient multimodal interdisciplinary pain therapy group program for treatment of patients with chronic unspecific back pain. ⋯ Interestingly, the results showed a significant improvement of almost all evaluated parameters even after a period of 12 months (unfortunately only data for 41 patients were available). In our opinion this improvement is due to the special constellation of the presented program, which with 1 week is relatively short but very intensive with 34 h of treatment. In addition, the program is integrated into a long-term multimodal outpatient treatment, a concept in which the multimodal treatment is individually continued after the 1‑week program. On the other hand, the results especially after 12 months have to be interpreted particularly in this context.
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Observational Study
Effect of Multicolumn Lead Spinal Cord Stimulation on Low Back Pain in Failed Back Surgery Patients: A Three-Year Follow-Up.
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) remains poorly efficient at reducing back pain in failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) patients. We aimed at determining whether a new multicolumn lead SCS technique was efficient at durably reducing their leg (LP) and back (BP) pain. ⋯ Multicolumn lead SCS in FBSS patients significantly improve BP, LP, quality of life, and medication consumption for at least 36 months. A classical placebo effect cannot account for long-term improvements of such magnitude.