... low back pain in adolescent athletes In the current era of multi-modality imaging, radiographs, skeletal scintigraphy, CT and MRI all play an important role in imaging patients with back pain Planar ... tomography findings in patients with back pain investigated for spondylolysis Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine 2005, 15(2):79-86 Micheli LJ, Wood R: Back pain in young athletes Significant differences ... vertebral body with extension to the pedicle [35,36] Ultimately, SPECT may be fused with CT, if needed, to help add specificity to the findings Conclusions The economic burden of back pain is significant...
... other chronic pain patients with less widespread symptoms, including those with rheumatoid arthritis [7] and non-inflammatory low back pain [9] These findings are equivocal, however, with some investigators ... group of 40 patients with fibromyalgia, 28 with non-inflammatory low back pain and 14 pain free controls Compared to the pain free control subjects, those with fibromyalgia displayed mild hypocortisolemia ... demonstrated that chronic widespread pain was associated with altered HPA axis function Specifically, the presence of chronic widespread pain was associated with lower levels of salivary cortisol...
... reduced by 63% in PBMCs from OA patients, with a pain score on the VAS (0 to 100) of greater than 40 (n = 14) compared with healthy controls OA patients with a pain intensity of less than or equal ... score (visual analog scale [VAS] score of greater than 40; ᭝) compared with healthy controls (❍) and with OA patients with a low pain score (VAS score of less than or equal to 40; ∇) No significant ... expression coincides with enhanced pain Reduced DREAM mRNA expression appears not to be sufficient to relieve pain and/or counteract other mechanisms induced by chronic pain, which possibly include...
... ipsilateral longer leg, and 17 cases with bilateral GTPS) and in 163 subjects without GTPS; therefore, 13.7% of subjects with GTPS had a LLI compared with 14.1% of those without GTPS (P = 0.86 by Fisher's ... from subjects with only lateral hip pain to include all subjects with hip or knee pain complaints who also had greater trochanteric tenderness to palpation (still excluding those with generalized ... this area would preclude the presence of a pain syndrome Since we wished to study trochanteric area pain, not referred pain from the hip joint, subjects with suspected hip osteoarthritis based on...
... Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010, 5:2 http://www.jbppni.com/content/5/1/2 Page of presents with pain[ 4] however, sensory complaints may be the presenting symptom If L4 radiculopathies is caused ... radiculopathy and saphenous neuropathy A thorough physical examination is mandatory in patients with low back pain and uncommon neuropathies like saphenous nerve entrapment must be considered Consent ... doi:10.1186/1749-7221-5-2 Cite this article as: Ahadi et al.: Saphenous neuropathy in a patient with low back pain Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2010 5:2 Submit your next manuscript...
... back pain in patients with subacute low back painPain 2006, 124:305-311 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-5-86 Cite this article as: McKenzie et al.: Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain ... tests for patients with acute low back pain The North Carolina Back Pain Project Ann Intern Med 1996, 125:807-814 21 Cherkin DC, MacCornack FA, Berg AO: Managing low back pain a comparison of ... Radicular leg pain is present; this is defined as leg pain described as shooting, lancinating, or electric in quality, extends below the knee, has a dermatomal distribution with or without paraesthesia...
... were diagnosed with plantar heel pain All participants were over the age of 18 and had experienced symptoms of any duration A trial was only included if the participant’s plantar heel pain was managed ... Care)"/or exp Questionnaires/or exp Treatment Outcome exp Heel Pain/ or exp Pain Assessment/or exp Foot Pain/ or exp Musculoskeletal Pain/ exp fasciitis/ exp methodology/ (leg* or calf or calves or foot ... differences between and within groups of included studies Trial Difference between groups Differences within groups Tillu and Gupta (1998) N/A (one group only) (i) VAS pain: @ weeks (34.7% improvement,...
... empirically with multiple vasodilator therapy, with good effect Given the variable arterial structure of these channels and their intramural location (exposed therefore to the pulsatile flow within ... life or older, with no demonstrable epicardial atherosclerotic coronary arterial disease These patients have a predictable high prevalence of associated presentation with chest pain symptoms leading ... Patients with multiple micro-channels extending from the coronary arteries to the ventricular cavities can be seen rarely in midlife in females presenting with troponin-negative ischaemic chest pain...
... effective in treating patients with neck pain than were alternative strategies Although strength training seems to be an efficient way of treating patients with neck pain, its effect on HRQoL has ... pain reduction in the STG and ETG compared to the CG While neck pain is shown to be associated with a decrease in HRQoL in earlier cross-sectional studies [1,7- 12] the present reduction in pain ... moderately enhance the HRQoL of female patients with chronic neck pain Neck and upper body training can be recommended to improve HRQoL of females with neck pain if they are motivated for long-term...
... to acute low back pain Eur J Pain 2007, 11:290-298 Breen A, Breen R: Back pain and satisfaction with chiropractic treatment: what role does the physical outcome play? Clin J Pain 2003, 19:263-268 ... much time, if any, they had taken off work with back pain in the past years) Duration of current episode and chronicity [23] were determined, along with a standardised 'Core Set' of outcome measures ... [28] as a measure of psychological distress At week follow-up, pain impact was measured as at baseline, along with satisfaction with care on a 5-point numerical scale http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/15/1/5...
... scenarios with no past history of LBP, those with intermittent LBP over the past year, and those with several similar events over the past year The research team had anticipated that patients with ... changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale Pain 2001, 94:149-158 Pincus T, Vogel S, Breen A, Foster N, Underwood M: Persistent back pain why physical ... patient were: "A 40-year old man who consults you for Low Back Painwith no additional spinal or musculoskeletal problems, and with no other health problems His X-rays are normal for his age...
... randomized clinical trial has been conducted on maintenance care; a pilot study on patients with low back pain (LBP) with non-conclusive results [3] This lack of evidence has resulted in eager proponents ... hypothetical patient: "A 40-year old man who consults you for low back painwith no additional spinal or musculoskeletal problems and with no other health problems There are no aggravating factors at ... reported below "Second opinion": Three cases of worsening of pain and one of intermittent pain were described, and also one of no previous pain at all in the past year "Try again": The explanations...
... smoking, fee subsidization, leg pain, pain intensity at base-line and at the 4th visit, dura- tion of pain at base-line, total duration of pain in the past year, pain in other parts of the spine ... on low back pain Variables Number of respondents LBP yes no (only leg pain) 731 Leg pain yes no 731 Pain intensity past 24 hrs none weak moderate severe unbearable 727 Duration of pain this period ... Consecutive patients who sought care for LBP with or without pain radiating into the leg, who were new to the clinic or had not received chiropractic treatment within the past three months, were invited...
... subjects with LBP who were diagnosed with ITB tightness were selected Then, 100 subjects with LBP without ITB tightness and 100 subjects with no LBP, matched in age and gender to those with ITB ... subjects with and without ITB tightness (P = 0.59) Subjects with no LBP had significantly stronger hip abductor muscle strength compared to subjects with LBP with ITB tightness (P < 0.001) or those with ... subjects with LBP with ITB tightness and those without ITB tightness In this study, however, no significant difference was found in hip abductor strength between LBP subjects with and without...
... seen within week would again be booked within week (51%), those last seen within 2-4 weeks would be seen again within the same time interval (32%) or within 1-3 months (40%) Those last seen within ... last visit most commonly occurred within the past 2-4 weeks, or within the past 1-3 months There were two equally large groups who were last seen within week or within months or later Contrary ... visit within week (n = 42) Next visit between 2-4 weeks (n = 41) Last visit within week (n = 37) 3% 51% 27% 16% 3% 100% Last visit within 2-4 weeks (n = 72) 10% 15% 32% 40% 3% 100% Last visit within...
... each with questions relating to one basic case, in which an uncomplicated patient with LBP was described The basic case was:"A 40-year old man consults you for low back pain of days duration with ... use of MC For example, within this definition, it was considered unsuitable to offer MC to patients with no previous history of back problems at all, whereas patients with frequent past problems ... Maintenance care in patients with no previous history of back problems but with different outcomes Overall, the results of the first set of cases were in accordance with the expectations of the...
... KM, Main CJ, Hay EM: Subgrouping low back pain: a comparison of the STarT Back Tool with the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire Eur J Pain 2010, 14:83-89 Bech P, Rasmussen NA, ... reported to have had pain for more than 30 days during the preceding year, and during the past two weeks a median of days with LBP was reported (Interquartile range - 14) Daily pain during the last ... Scores were - 36 (median 8), with 15% categorized as high on catastrophising Catastrophising was positively associated with risk group (Table 3), and the proportions with high scores ranged from...
... Musculoskeletal Pain Clin J Pain 2011, 27(8):655-663 Murphy DR, Hurwitz EL: Usefulness of a 2-question coping screening tool in patients with low back pain In: American Academy of Pain Management ... of McKenzie [29] Segmental pain provocation signs, detected through historical factors that are associated with lumbar facet or sacroiliac pain [23] and through the pain provocation tests of Laslett, ... Rating Scale for pain intensity (NRS) [51], a scale in which the patient is asked to rate the average intensity of the pain over the past week on a 0-10 scale with “0” representing “no pain and “10”...
... Temporomandibular disorders WIPS Withpain symptoms WoPS Without pain symptoms WMNoPmax Maximal width of pain- free mouth opening WMPmax Maximal width of mouth opening withpain Statement of originality ... nociception and the pain response because in many cases the pain stimulus is not obvious Measurement of pain also differs between the types of pain ie acute pain versus chronic pain Gracely & Dubner ... experience pain differently than men (Cook & Chastain, 2001) 15 Pain experiences have been shown to vary greatly with age (Woodrow et al, 1972) Studies indicate that pain threshold and pain tolerance with...