Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng59
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PainSci notes

For the record, these are all the verboten, “do not offer” treatments in the 2016 National Institute for Health Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines for non-specific chronic low back pain:

• belts or corsets
• foot orthotics, rocker sole shoes
• traction
• acupuncture
• ultrasound
• PENS, TENS, interferential therapy
• paracetamol alone, opioids, antidepressants, anticonvulsants
• spinal injections, disc replacement, spinal fusion

Hardly a complete list, I’m sure, but these are the ones that made it to the current draft. (And yeah, “verboten” is obviously a bit of whimsical hyperbole. This is from something explicitly called “guidelines” after all.)

For more, see this summary of the NICE guidelines.

~ Paul Ingraham, PainSci Publisher

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