Articles: back-pain.
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Cochrane Db Syst Rev · Jan 2007
ReviewInterventions for preventing and treating pelvic and back pain in pregnancy.
More than two-thirds of pregnant women experience back pain and almost one-fifth experience pelvic pain. The pain increases with advancing pregnancy and interferes with work, daily activities and sleep. ⋯ All but one study had moderate to high potential for bias, so results must be viewed cautiously. Adding pregnancy-specific exercises, physiotherapy or acupuncture to usual prenatal care appears to relieve back or pelvic pain more than usual prenatal care alone, although the effects are small. We do not know if they actually prevent pain from starting in the first place. Water gymnastics appear to help women stay at work. Acupuncture shows better results compared to physiotherapy.
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Jan 2007
Randomized Controlled TrialEye discomfort, headache and back pain among Mayan Guatemalan women taking part in a randomised stove intervention trial.
Indoor air pollution (IAP) from combustion of biomass fuels represents a global health problem, estimated to cause 1.6 million premature deaths annually. ⋯ In addition to reducing discomfort for women, tangible improvements in symptoms experienced by a substantial proportion of women may help to gain acceptance and wider use of planchas.
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Back pain is a common presenting symptom in emergency departments and primary care across the UK. The extensive differential diagnosis includes mechanical, infective, thoracic, abdominal and vascular causes. This case report describes a patient who presented with lower back pain with a rare diagnosis, which is becoming more common in certain population groups, and emphasises the importance of clinical skills and insuring adequate tetanus prophylaxis.
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Equine veterinary journal · Jan 2007
Innervation and nerve injections of the lumbar spine of the horse: a cadaveric study.
The distal limb innervation of the horse has been studied extensively to allow use of local anaesthetic techniques to detect the origin of pain in lameness. However, the innervation of the lumbar spine has so far been poorly described and a more precise description may assist clinicians to localise back pain in the horse. ⋯ This study has a clear clinical relevance for development of diagnostic and therapeutic injection techniques of the lumbar spine in the horse.
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Case Reports
[Back pain without radiculitis as an initial manifestation of Lyme disease: two cases].
The most frequent neurological expression of Lyme disease (borreliosis) during its secondary phase is meningoradiculitis, but atypical presentations occur. Lyme disease must be considered especially in endemic areas and during the summer (May-October). ⋯ Inflammatory back pain, even without radiculitis, may be related to Lyme disease in endemic areas.