Adding diazepam to naproxen to treat acute low back pain (LBP) provides no advantage compared with placebo, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted at Montefiore Medical Center.
The investigators enrolled 114 patients presenting with acute, nontraumatic, nonradicular LBP—pain duration of no more than two weeks immediately before discharge from the emergency department (ED)—and who had a score greater than 5 on the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire, a