Current pain and headache reports
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Low back pain is a common complaint in the primary care setting. Although most patients with acute low back pain will improve with conservative treatment, back pain often recurs, and a subset of patients will progress to chronic and sometimes disabling symptoms. ⋯ The benefit of medications, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics, and possibly antidepressants or muscle relaxants, must be weighed against potential adverse effects. There is insufficient evidence regarding the effectiveness of many of the available therapies for chronic low back pain, and well-designed, randomized controlled trials are needed to clarify the role of these treatments.
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Curr Pain Headache Rep · Dec 2006
ReviewAt the crossroads between tension-type headache and fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia syndrome and tension-type headache have multiple clinical features in common, and pathogenic mechanisms partly overlap. Significant differences need to be recognized as well. Studying the correlations of these often comorbid conditions represents a unique opportunity to gain insight into their pathophysiology and that of other chronic pain syndromes, to increase the accuracy of their diagnosis, and to improve the therapeutic armamentarium.