A new review shows bed rest is unlikely to help your back pain. The treatments that work can depend on how long your pain has ...

We assessed the best available evidence of non-drug and non-surgical treatments to alleviate low back pain.

The aim of this recent review was to investigate the efficacy of non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for adults with low back pain compared with placebo. It included all randomised ...

Jason, a 42-year-old father of two, has been battling back pain for weeks. Scrolling through his phone, he sees ad after ad promising relief: chiropractic alignments, acupuncture, back braces, ...

Most non-surgical treatments for low back pain offer little benefit over placebo, with only a few showing modest effects. Better-quality research is urgently needed. Pooled data analysis shows that ...

Learn why most treatments for both acute and chronic back pain may not actually work.

Chronic back pain is the most common type of pain, affecting around 16 million American adults — and now a new study has revealed some discouraging findings about potential treatments.

The following is a summary of “An Evidence-Based Consensus for the Use of Neurostimulation for the Treatment of Non-Surgical Low Back Pain: The NEURON Group,” published in the March 2025 issue of ...