Only around one in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain are effective, suggests a pooled ...

A vertical "visual analog scale" asks the person to mark their pain on a vertical line, a bit like imagining "filling up" ...

MRI was performed at baseline of therapy. The subjective low back pain was recorded at baseline and after treatment on a visual analogue scale. After LLLT, low back pain in both groups showed ...

Back pain had to have lasted at least 3 months to be considered chronic. Baseline pain was rated at a median of 6.8 on a 10-cm visual analogue scale. Most trials had funding from nonprofit or ...

In chronic low back pain, botulinum neurotoxin type A improved patients' pain and functional outcomes vs placebo and other local injection therapies.

In the study, treatment with AGA111, a recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein 6 (rhBMP6), led to faster radiographic fusion and a higher fusion success rate, as well as greater improvements in ...

The Visual Analogue Scale for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (VAS-IBS) questionnaire was designed to measure the treatment response of symptoms and well-being in patients suffering from IBS. Methods ...

They found that patients with spinal cord injury undergo ... of displacement correlated with reported pain intensity as measured by a visual analog scale. In addition, the region that represented ...

and burning – using the Psoriasis Symptom Scale (PSS), the Pain Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). The PSS ranges from 0 to 16, while the Pain VAS ranges ...