Sentences with phrase «chronic low back pain disability»

The dominant role of psychosocial risk factors in the development of chronic low back pain disability.

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The trial confirms the findings of two prior randomized controlled trials with non-veterans showing that yoga is safe and can reduce pain and disability among adults with chronic low back pain.

A San Diego VA study among Veterans with chronic low back pain found that those who completed a 12 - week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid use.

In a study including 150 military veterans with chronic low back pain, researcher Dr. Erik J. Groessl and his team from the VA San Diego Healthcare System found that veterans who completed a 12 - week yoga program had better scores on a disability questionnaire, improved pain intensity scores, and a decline in opioid use.

Chronic low back pain one of the most important and costly of all public health conditions affecting the U.S. is a major cause of pain and disability, with high costs for health care and the economy at large.

In 2013, low back pain and major depression ranked among the top ten greatest contributors to disability in every country, causing more health loss than diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma combined.

Kaptchuk, with colleagues at Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA) in Lisbon, Portugal, studied 97 patients with chronic lower back pain (cLBP), which causes more disability than any other medical condition worldwide.

Yoga: Another study funded by the NCCIH revealed that people with chronic lower back pain who took up Iyengar yoga, a practice that focuses on proper alignment, experienced decreased discomfort and less disability after six months.

In fact, one study showed that 10 - weeks of yoga intervention combining breathing, stretching, strengthening and mindfulness exercises, increased quality of life, decreased fear avoidance beliefs, and decreased pain disability in people who experienced non-specific chronic low back pain.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Physiotherapy has an important role in managing patients with non-specific low back pain who experience elevated psychosocial distress or risk for chronic disability.

For example, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) had small positive effects on disability and catastrophic thinking.66 Exercise therapy reduced pain and improved function in chronic low back pain54; improved function and reduced pain in osteoarthritis of the knee51 and hip52; and improved well - being, fibromyalgia symptoms, and physical function in fibromyalgia.48 Multimodal and multidisciplinary therapies helped reduce pain and improve function more effectively than single modalities.55, 67 Multiple guidelines recommended acetaminophen as first - line pharmacotherapy for osteoarthritis68 - 73 or for low back pain74 and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as first - line treatment for osteoarthritis or low back pain70, 74; first - and second - line drugs for neuropathic pain include anticonvulsants (gabapentin or pregabalin), tricyclic antidepressants, and serotonin - norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).75 - 78 Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been associated with hepatic, gastrointestinal, renal, and cardiovascular risks.63, 73,79

Manual therapy followed by specific active exercises versus a placebo followed by specific active exercises on the improvement of functional disability in patients with chronic non specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

Nonetheless, certain injuries are encountered more frequently in NJ total disability cases, such as lumbar disc herniation (lower back), cervical disc herniation (neck), spinal fracture, paralysis, brain and head trauma, burns, amputation, and chronic pain problems.

Sandra had presented evidence of her disability which involved severe chronic lower back pain, irritable bowel syndrome, degenerative joint disease in her knee and a severe mental impairment from anxiety disorder and depression.