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" with pain. Take time to explain the pain scale consistently, remembering that ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...