Articles: back-pain.
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The purpose of the study was to present a reliable instrument with easy application to assess the outcome and improvement of therapy in patients with radicular symptoms of the lumbar spine. ⋯ This short, significant and easy to use questionnaire is in our opinion a useful instrument to assess the course of patients with radicular back pain and especially to measure and monitor the outcome of therapeutic interventions, in addition to conventional clinical diagnostics and examinations. This novel instrument could be a useful tool for improving quality assurance in conventional and interventional pain management of these patients.
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Observational cross-sectional study. ⋯ This study showed that the Simplified Chinese versions of back pain beliefs questionnaires are valid and reliable. Therefore, these questionnaires can be used in research involving Chinese health care professionals living in mainland China.
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A single-center, prospective, consecutive case series of patients undergoing epidural lavage before the treatment of radiculopathy due to lumbar disc herniation. ⋯ A molecular complex of fibronectin and aggrecan predicts response to lumbar ESI for radiculopathy with HNP. The biomarker is accurate, objective, and not affected by demographic or psychosocial variables in this series.
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Over the last several decades there has been a general trend toward reduction and minimalization in surgical treatment of chronic back pain, since open surgery brings complications in small and contained disc herniations instead of achieving expected success. Attention has been focussed on percutaneous nucleoplasty due to the limited success of other minimally invasive methods, as well due to their associated complications. However, there have been few studies in the English literature with a follow-up period of more than 1 year. ⋯ While it is once more shown that nucleoplasty is a safe method, it is also shown that its effectiveness continues at the end of 2 years.
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To investigate the prevalence and the type of mental comorbidity in a population-based sample of subjects with non-specific chronic back pain. ⋯ The consistent diagnoses of anxiety, fear, and avoidance in these subjects indicate that also primary care health professionals should consider anxiety disorders in patients with chronic pain, in addition to the affective disorders that are most frequently self-reported in pain patients.