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Noninvasive Spine Pain Interventions Show Better Outcomes Than Standard Care
Use of a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial intervention and individualized postural therapy (IPT) reduced spine ...
AUGUST 17, 2023
Chiropractors Use Less Caution Than Other Providers After Lumbar Surgery
Chiropractors may be less likely to use caution when treating persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery (PSPS-2) ...
APRIL 10, 2023
New SCS, Minimally Invasive Spine Data Presented at ASPN Show Improvements for Patients
Interventional therapies are continuing to improve and evolve to the benefit of a wide variety of pain patients, ...
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Review Explores Risks, Benefits of Gadolinium as Interventional Procedure Contrast Agent
A new evidence-based position statement warns of the risks of interventional pain procedures involving ...
JULY 13, 2021
Conditioned Open-Label Placebo Sparing Cuts Opioid Use, Maintains Pain Control After Spine Surgery in Some Patients
Conditioning with an open-label placebo in the immediate postoperative period after spinal surgery significantly ...
MAY 20, 2021
ERAS Protocol Reduced Need for Opioids, Patient-Controlled Analgesia After Spine Surgery
An enhanced recovery after surgery protocol resulted in greatly reduced opioid use after elective spine and ...
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Epidural Steroid Injections Before Spine Surgery Increase Odds of Chronic Opioid Use
Patients with back pain who received one or more epidural steroid injections before spine surgery were much more ...
JANUARY 25, 2021
Drug Advances Could Help Treat, Avoid Osteoporosis Fractures
New formulations of calcitonin, a peptide drug used to increase bone density, could benefit osteoporosis patients ...
JANUARY 22, 2021
End of the Reign of Multimodal Analgesia for Spine Surgery? Not So Fast
The effects of multimodal analgesia had not been carefully evaluated in clinical trials until recently.
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Lumbar Spinal Fusion Surgery Levels Not Linked to Post-op Opioid Use
Lumbar spinal fusion patients who use more total morphine equivalents preoperatively tended to use more ...
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Nonopioid Multimodal Approach Does Not Improve Recovery After Multilevel Spinal Surgery
Nonopioid-based multimodal regimens may be increasingly popular throughout anesthesiology, but the approach may not ...
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Lumbar Decompression Relieves Spinal Stenosis Pain More Than Epidural Injection
Minimally invasive lumbar decompression (MILD) reduced back pain caused by lumbar stenosis, and decreased opioid ...
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
