Pharmacologic therapy should only be considered for patients with chronic low back pain if there has been an inadequate response to nonpharmacologic management. Current guidelines suggest clinicians ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Clinical practice guidelines for chronic pain sometimes emerge through flawed processes, present ...

Personalized care for chronic low back pain led to improvements in physical and mental health measures, pain intensity, and reduced falls among older adults.

Objective To develop and evaluate a new patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) to assess people’s knowledge and beliefs about low back pain. Methods This study followed the COnsensus-based Standards ...

Studies indicate that a majority of pharmacologic treatment modalities currently used for acute and subacute low back pain have shown little to small effect on patients’ pain levels and functional ...