Articles: back-pain.
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Despite the heterogeneity of chronic lower back pain aetiologies, cluneal nerve entrapment remains underdiagnosed and poorly understood with few studies discussing the efficacy of its surgical release. ⋯ This systematic review demonstrated that cluneal nerve decompression has been performed in a total of 98 patients with significant clinical improvement, zero systemic and local complications and revision rates of 8.2% of the cases.
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Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain experience not only pain but also abnormal body perception. Such abnormal body perception has been reported to be caused by incongruence between motor intentions and sensory feedback (i.e., sensorimotor incongruence). However, the influence of abnormal body perception with sensorimotor incongruence on pain prognosis in musculoskeletal pain patients has not been investigated. ⋯ Heaviness caused by sensorimotor incongruence may predict pain prognosis in patients with musculoskeletal pain after one month.