Articles: back-pain.
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Chronic pain in the neck and low back is highly prevalent. Although heritable components have been identified, knowledge about generational transmission of spinal pain between parents and their adult offspring is sparse. ⋯ Parental chronic spinal pain was consistently associated with increased occurrence of chronic spinal pain in their adult offspring, and this association was particularly strong for multilevel spinal pain.
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Comparative Study
What Patient Characteristics could Potentially affect Patient Satisfaction Scores during Spine Clinic?
Prospective study. ⋯ 1.
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Chronic pain affects between 10-20 % of the population of Japan and several specific types of chronic pain have been found to be associated with worse health outcomes. The aim of the current study was to investigate the economic burden of chronic pain as well as the health status among Japanese patients. ⋯ The results suggest that chronic pain has a significant association in an individual's health status, work productivity, daily activity impairment, healthcare resource use, and economic burden in Japan. Along with low treatment rates, a multidisciplinary approach may lead to an improved quality of life and reduce the economic burden among patients with chronic pain in Japan.
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A retrospective study with retrospective and prospective inclusion of 100 patients. ⋯ 3.