Articles: low-back-pain.
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Comparative Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
The effect of lumbar fatigue on the ability to sense a change in lumbar position. A controlled study.
A cross-sectional study in patients with recurrent/chronic low back trouble and healthy control subjects. ⋯ Lumbar fatigue impairs the ability to sense a change in lumbar position. This feature was found in patients and control subjects, but patients with low back trouble had poorer ability to sense a change in lumbar position than control subjects even when they were not fatigued. There seems to be a period after a fatiguing task during which the available information on lumbar position and its changes is inaccurate.
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Reg Anesth Pain Med · Jul 1999
Case ReportsLumbar spine pain originating from vertebral osteophytes.
Axial spine pain originates from a number of structures. Putative pain generators include facet joints, intervertebral disks, sacroiliac joints, and myofascial structures. Osteophytes originating from lumbar vertebral bodies in the area of the intervertebral disks may be a source of nociceptive low back pain which may respond to local injection. ⋯ Vertebral osteophytes may be a source of axial spine pain. Injection of painful osteophytes with a local anesthetic and corticosteroid solution may produce pain relief.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Recurrent low back pain and early disc degeneration in the young.
A prospective 9-year follow-up study involving randomized matched subgroups of 15-year-old schoolchildren with or without low back pain at baseline. ⋯ The authors' earlier findings already favored the hypothesis of a causal relation between the early evolution of a degenerative process of lower lumbar discs and recurrent low back pain in the near future. The current results further strengthen this hypothesis, indicating that individuals with disc degeneration soon after the phase of rapid physical growth not only have an increased risk of recurrent low back pain at this age, but also a long-term risk of recurrent pain up to early adulthood.
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Br J Obstet Gynaecol · Jul 1999
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialLabour pain treated with cutaneous injections of sterile water: a randomised controlled trial.
To evaluate the relief of pain in labour with subcutaneous and intracutaneous injections of sterile water, compared with placebo. ⋯ The new subcutaneous method of administering sterile water, as well as the earlier described intracutaneous injection method, were effective for the relief of pain in labour.