CHICAGO, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Chronic pain is terrifying. Sciatica and stenosis are two of the most common causes of persistent, debilitating back pain. Chicago resident Pedro Estrada suffered from extreme back pain that compromised his livelihood and soured his outlook on life. After taking time off from his job and consulting many doctors, he finally found relief with non-surgical treatment at the Illinois Back Institute.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Lower back pain often fades fairly quickly, but it may stubbornly linger to some extent for months or more, a new study finds.
“The clear good news is that if you seek care for your back pain, you do improve pretty quickly, and some folk do a lot better than others,” said Christopher G. Maher, at researcher at the George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia, who worked on the study.
The less-than-good news is that, on average, people with low back pain tend to still have some symptoms as much as a year later.
People treated for low-back pain tend to improve greatly in the first six weeks but the pain and disability in some people may linger for a year, a new review suggests.
Researchers from Australia and Britain crunched data from studies on 11,166 people in a dozen countries who were receiving care for low-back pain. An estimated four out of five Canadians will experience back pain at some point in their lives.
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) — People who receive treatment for chronic and acute low-back pain show significant improvement in the first six weeks, but may still have some pain and disability after one year, according to a new study.
Researchers analyzed data from 33 studies that included more than 11,000 patients to learn more about how treatment affects low-back pain. Their findings appear in the May 14 online edition of CMAJ, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
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