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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

Chronic Back Pain

Cymbalta tested for chronic back pain

October 03, 2008
Cymbalta, a drug used to treat major depressive order, has shown promise as a treatment for chronic low back pain in a small clinical trial. In the study, researchers compared the effectiveness of Cymbalta to a placebo in 236 patients who suffered from chronic low back pain. After 13 weeks, investigators found that 31 percent of patients taking Cymbalta experienced a 50-percent reduction in pain, compared to 19 percent of those given a placebo. However, significantly more patients taking Cymbalt... Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Is Treatment for Chronic Back Pain Creating Addiction, Not Relief
By Dr. Mark Borigini , Health Expert

...analysis of studies regarding the use of opioids in chronic back pain was published in the... Read more »

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Best Book of the Summer
By Tracy Davenport , Health Expert

...personality traits as common in patients who experience chronic back pain, ulcers or ulcerative... Read more »

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New Guidelines for Low Back Pain Treatment
By Dr. Mark Borigini , Health Expert

...Unfortunately, some of these folks are the 5% (yes, five) of chronic back pain patients whose... Read more »

Health Guide

Spine Anatomy 101
I never much cared for anatomy class. Dead bodies, the cold, and the smell were just not the way I liked to spend an afternoon. Every first year medical student spends hours in the anatomy room... Read more »
How to Use This Site
...frightening and isolating. However, you're not alone; various forms of chronic pain—fibromyalgia, back pain and sciatica, chronic fatigue syndrome, TMJ—affect millions of Americans.... Read more »
Diskitis
...Expectations (prognosis) With infectious causes, full recovery following treatment is expected and chronic back pain related to this condition is very rare. For auto-immune causes, the... Read more »
Spondyloarthritis Symptoms and Causes
...ankylosing spondylitis and male gender. Symptoms of SpondyloarthrisThe disease starts with hip or low back pain that comes and goes and is worse at night, in the morning, or after inactivity.Back... Read more »
Can I Just Be Normal?
...briefly surprising, because I have heard it before from other sufferers of chronic conditions like back pain, paralysis and even alcoholism.This woman’s question highlights a crucially important... Read more »

Related News

Posture training eases back pain
October 03, 2008

British researchers say a posture training method known as the Alexander Technique may provide relief for chronic back pain that lasts for more than... Read summary »

Narcotics may give only temporary back-pain relief
October 02, 2008

Opioid medicines like OxyContin and Vicodin treat chronic back pain in the short term, experts say, but may not be good choices for long-term use.... Read summary »

Back pain linked to depression
October 03, 2008

A recent survey suggests that people with chronic back pain are more likely to suffer from depression than the general population. Sixty-one percent... Read summary »

Clinical trial: Celebrex versus Ultram for chronic lower back pain
October 02, 2008

This is a study to see if Celebrex is as effective as Ultram for patients with chronic lower back pain. This national study is currently recruiting... Read summary »

Chronic low back pain is on the rise
February 16, 2009

A North Carolina study finds that the rate of chronic low back pain has more than doubled in that state since the early 1990s -- a statistic the... Read summary »