Objective To summarise the evidence for non-pharmacological management of low back pain (LBP) in athletes, a common problem in sport that can negatively impact performance and contribute to early ...

Sam Bhide, an advanced practice physiotherapist, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) spokesperson and clinical director and founder of Physiozen ltd, explains: "Severe low back pain ...

Back pain often happens because something is off in the way your spinal joints, muscles, discs, and nerves fit together and move. Nighttime back pain is a special type of lower back pain that ...

Acupuncture. Massage. Muscle relaxants. Cannabinoids. Opioids. The list of available treatments for low back pain goes on and on. But there’s not good evidence that these treatments actually ...

As one example, Medicare Part B covers 12 acupuncture sessions for chronic low back pain (pain with no known cause lasting 12 weeks or longer) within a 90-day period—and an additional eight ...

And the pain relief they offer is only marginally better than that achieved with a placebo, the findings indicate. Low back pain is common and debilitating, and 80–90% of it is categorized as ...