According to an article published in The Gateway, results from a study by University of Alberta researchers have shown that people who believe they have chronic back pain are more likely to have a longer recovery time. Two researchers from the Faculty of Rehabilitation, Doug Gross and Michele Crites-Battie, looked at injured employees going into […]
According to a report in The Times Of India A survey of 1,000-odd employees working in the IT sector carried out in Ahmedabad, in India has thrown up alarming results – nearly half suffer from neck and back pain. What’s more, over 20% complained of stress and headaches. Director of Mision Health Dr Alaap Shah […]
When researchers analyzed health and family history data for 2 million Utah residents, they identified 1,264 with a diagnosis of lower spine disease associated with herniated or degenerating discs. Disc disease is one of the most common causes of persistent low back pain. People with an immediate family member, such as a parent, sibling, or […]
When it comes to lower back pain, more testing doesn’t lead to better care. On the contrary — it may actually lead to worse care, not to mention higher costs, it was reported by Reuters’ According to a report from the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians (ACP), there’s “good evidence” that […]
Nurses are arguably the most critical element in the delivery of primary care within any healthcare organisation, either private or public. Within this environment, despite the availability of various types of lifting equipment and aids, the nurse’s role will frequently involve manually lifting or assisting in movement and lifting of patients as part of routine […]
Chronic lower back pain could eventually be treated with hydrogel injections that restore the shock-absorbing properties of damaged intervertebral discs. Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have developed a unique hydrogel delivery system that contains stem cells and chemical factors that may combat degeneration and promote growth of damaged intervertebral discs. Lower back pain affects approximately […]
Are you suffering with back and leg pain? Do you need pain relief for sciatica? Lower back Pain or Sciatica generally occurs often as a result of ‘overdoing things’, such as spending the whole weekend digging the garden, after a week of sedentary occupation “inactivity”. There’s often a high incidence of lumbar pain in drivers, […]
The Lumbacurve back pain relief product has been painstakingly developed over several years in the UK and Netherlands to deliver relief to sufferers of lower back pain, or sciatic conditions. It attempts to combine the best of both Eastern and Western back pain therapy techniques. …..But does it really work? The best form of advertisement for […]
Lower back pain is one of the highest causes of workplace absenteeism. Lower back pain or sciatica, as it is sometimes known will usually entail visit to the GP to help back pain, often resulting in the prescription of chemical painkillers and (until recently) rest. Continued discomfort, and further visits to the GP, may lead […]
SOME people can doze off anywhere. But generally, most of us are used to having a good or fairly comfortable bed (or mattress) for a good night’s sleep. Then again, a good mattress not only allows us to sleep better, it also does our back a favour, so to speak. If we sleep on a good […]