Low back pain affects an estimated one in four American adults and is the leading contributor to disability globally. In most ...

But a new study has found that only one in 10 treatments for lower back pain are effective, with those that improve symptoms ...

A new review of the evidence finds that only a handful of common remedies provide a modest benefit for acute or chronic back ...

Australian researchers have found that nine out of 10 treatments for back pain do not work as you would want. However, what ...

Only around 1 in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain is effective, suggests a pooled data ...

I’ve suffered with an achy lower back for as long as I can remember; I work at a desk and do heavy weightlifting four times a ...

Discover four effective treatments for pinched nerves in your back that provide real relief from pain, numbness, and tingling ...

A new review reaffirms that spinal steroid injections only reduce neck and back pain for a few months, but they don't improve ...

In chronic low back pain, botulinum neurotoxin type A improved patients' pain and functional outcomes vs placebo and other local injection therapies.

Nearly 8 out of every 10 people will have low back pain at some point in life. Back pain is one of the top reasons people seek medical treatment. It is also the No. 1 reported reason for seeking ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since childhood, unable to do much physically and dependent on ibuprofen for relief.

Surgery to relieve chronic pain is sometimes resorted to too quickly, without considering possible after-effects, without a ...