Low back pain: a call for action
One article on PainSci cites Buchbinder 2018: Complete Guide to Low Back Pain
original abstract †Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exist, the effects will probably be more extreme in these regions. Most low back pain is unrelated to specific identifiable spinal abnormalities, and our Viewpoint, the third paper in this Lancet Series,2,3 is a call for action on this global problem of low back pain.
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- “Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions,” Foster, Nadine E and Anema, Johannes R and Cherkin, Dan and Chou, Roger and Cohen, Steven P and Gross, Douglas P and Ferreira, Paulo H and Fritz, Julie M and Koes, Bart W and Peul, Wilco and Turner, Judith A and Maher, Chris G and {Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group}, Lancet, 2018.
- “What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention,” Hartvigsen, Jan and Hancock, Mark J and Kongsted, Alice and Louw, Quinette and Ferreira, Manuela L and Genevay, Stéphane and Hoy, Damian and Karppinen, Jaro and Pransky, Glenn and Sieper, Joachim and Smeets, Rob J and Underwood, Martin and {Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group}, Lancet, 2018.
- “Whole of community pain education for back pain. Why does first-line care get almost no attention and what exactly are we waiting for?,” G Lorimer Moseley, British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018.
This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:
- Photobiomodulation therapy is not better than placebo in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Guimarães 2021 Pain.
- No effect of creatine monohydrate supplementation on inflammatory and cartilage degradation biomarkers in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Cornish 2018 Nutr Res.
- The CANBACK trial: a randomised, controlled clinical trial of oral cannabidiol for people presenting to the emergency department with acute low back pain. Bebee 2021 Med J Aust.
- Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects. Gerhart 2017 Ann Behav Med.
- Modulation in the elastic properties of gastrocnemius muscle heads in individuals with plantar fasciitis and its relationship with pain. Zhou 2020 Sci Rep.