Cooled radiofrequency ablation of lumbar nerves exhibited long-lasting, significant pain relief in patients with chronic low back pain.

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

Pooled data analysis shows that pain relief is only marginally better than placebo. A pooled analysis of existing research, ...

Only around 1 in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain is effective, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available ...

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

A vertical "visual analogue 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 ...

Participants aged ≥40 years with symptomatic knee OA (according to ACR criteria), significant knee pain (pain score ≥40mm on a 100mm visual analogue scale [VAS]), and effusion ... score [0-500mm]), ...

Chronic low back pain, defined as pain between the 12th rib and buttock crease, with or without leg pain, of more than 3 months’ duration.29 Pain intensity rating over the last week of ≥3 on an ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts regulators scaled back a popular energy-efficiency program amid criticism that the costs of expanding it are driving up utility rates for consumers. The state Department ...

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 ...