Articles: low-back-pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Randomised controlled trial of exercise for low back pain: clinical outcomes, costs, and preferences.
To evaluate effectiveness of an exercise programme in a community setting for patients with low back pain to encourage a return to normal activities. ⋯ The exercise class was more clinically effective than traditional general practitioner management, regardless of patient preference, and was cost effective.
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Br J Obstet Gynaecol · Jul 1999
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialLabour pain treated with cutaneous injections of sterile water: a randomised controlled trial.
To evaluate the relief of pain in labour with subcutaneous and intracutaneous injections of sterile water, compared with placebo. ⋯ The new subcutaneous method of administering sterile water, as well as the earlier described intracutaneous injection method, were effective for the relief of pain in labour.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Recurrent low back pain and early disc degeneration in the young.
A prospective 9-year follow-up study involving randomized matched subgroups of 15-year-old schoolchildren with or without low back pain at baseline. ⋯ The authors' earlier findings already favored the hypothesis of a causal relation between the early evolution of a degenerative process of lower lumbar discs and recurrent low back pain in the near future. The current results further strengthen this hypothesis, indicating that individuals with disc degeneration soon after the phase of rapid physical growth not only have an increased risk of recurrent low back pain at this age, but also a long-term risk of recurrent pain up to early adulthood.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The association between cigarette smoking and back pain in adults.
A retrospective cohort study of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. A comparison group of persons without scoliosis was also selected randomly from the general population. ⋯ The finding that smokers have more frequent episodes of back pain may imply that smoking exacerbates back pain, and the observation that stronger associations between back pain and smoking were found in the scoliosis cohort suggests that smoking may have a greater impact on persons with damaged spines.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
The efficacy of active rehabilitation in chronic low back pain. Effect on pain intensity, self-experienced disability, and lumbar fatigability.
A randomized study comparing the results of active rehabilitation and passive control treatment in patients with chronic low back pain with follow-up at 6 months and 1 year. ⋯ The active progressive treatment program was more successful in reducing pain and self-experienced disability and also in improving lumbar endurance than was the passive control treatment. However, the group difference in lumbar endurance tended to diminish at the 1-year follow-up.