Low back pain (affecting the back between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the legs) is a common condition. Over the years research has improved our understanding of how to treat it. We now know that a lot of advice given in [...]
Millions of patients with back pain are being given pointless drugs, surgery and injections, with a third prescribed dangerous opioids, experts say. Doctors prefer to offer useless and often harmful treatments rather than tell patients there is nothing to be done except stay active, an [...]
Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability globally but too often patients are let down by the treatment they are offered, say experts. They have written a series of papers in The Lancet asking the worldwide medical profession to stop offering ineffective and potentially harmful [...]
Hundreds of thousands of Australian back pain sufferers are being given harmful or useless treatments, leading researchers say, prompting them to make an extraordinary plea to protect the public. Thirty-one of the world’s leading back pain researchers have published a call to action in medical [...]
Hundreds of millions of back pain patients worldwide are being aggressively treated with strong opioid painkillers, surgery and scans of “dubious benefit”, doctors have warned. Lower back pain (LBP) has been identified as the leading cause of disability globally. It affects 540 million people and is made worse [...]
A team of international health experts has accused the medical fraternity of "mismanaging" back pain and providing "ineffective and harmful" treatments. In three papers published in the esteemed Lancet medical journal, the Australian and international authors assert that low back pain has increased dramatically in [...]