Chronic back pain may be relieved with a drug already on pharmacy shelves: study

Here’s some spine-tingling news. New research suggests a drug already available on pharmacy shelves could help ease chronic lower back pain. It’s a welcome discovery for the millions of Americans who ...

Persica Pharmaceuticals' Positive Clinical Data for PP353 Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain Published in The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine

First publication of clinical efficacy data for PP353, in development for chronic Low Back PainTrial demonstrated that PP353 delivers clinically ...
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Robotic spine surgery helps woman overcome debilitating back pain

Robotic spine surgery helped Donna Alonso overcome chronic back pain after traditional treatments failed. Learn how this ...
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Guarding is why you can’t get rid of that ongoing tension in your body

Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of the book “Practical Solutions for Back ...
Medscape

Brain Retraining Yields Lasting Relief of Chronic Back Pain

Psychological therapy that changes an individual’s beliefs about pain can provide lasting relief for chronic back pain (CBP), long-term follow-up results of a randomized controlled trial showed. More ...

Her Sudden Back Pain Was Unbearable. What Could Ease It?

For the past five months, she had been tortured by pain boring into her back, an inch to the left of her spine. It was as if ...
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Conference highlights advances in human and animal pain relief

In the early 1800s, leg amputations free of acute pain seemed impossible. However, the first widely used anesthetic, called ether, was right around the corner. Sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus ...
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Lower Back Pain in the Morning? Here’s Why—and How To Get Relief Fast

Waking up with lower back pain in the morning can put a damper on your day before it even begins. Whether it’s a dull ache or a sharp discomfort, morning back pain is common and can stem from various ...
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Pain relief comes from more than meds. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains your body’s natural painkillers

Nearly impossible to measure, quantify, convey, pain is a truly mysterious human sensation. For the last 25 years in my life as a neurosurgeon, I have seen a lot of pain and suffering firsthand, so ...
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Pain relief without pills? VR nature scenes trigger the brain’s healing switch

Stepping into a virtual forest or waterfall scene through VR could be the future of pain management. A new study shows that immersive virtual nature dramatically reduces pain sensitivity almost as ...
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Placebo pain relief works differently across human body, study finds

New research finds the human brain has a built-in pain map that activates in different areas when relieving face, arm or leg pain. But placebo pain relief only works where the brain expects it.
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Bone drug already on pharmacy shelves may treat chronic back pain

In A Nutshell An existing osteoporosis medication (PTH) reduced chronic back pain in three mouse models of spinal ...