Low back pain affects an estimated one in four American adults and is the leading contributor to disability globally. In most ...

A new review of the evidence finds that only a handful of common remedies provide a modest benefit for acute or chronic back ...

For acute low back pain, there is moderate-certainty evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are an effective ...

But a new study has found that only one in 10 treatments for lower back pain are effective, with those that improve symptoms ...

A data analysis published in a scientific journal indicates that differences with placebo are marginal for most treatments ...

ST. LOUIS — Chronic low back pain is one of the leading causes of disability in the U.S., affecting millions—including ...

A systematic review in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine reveals only 10% of treatments for low back pain offer genuine relief.

Only one in ten treatments for back pain actually work, and those that do are barely better than a placebo, a study from the ...

Only around 1 in 10 common non-surgical and non-invasive treatments for lower back pain is effective, suggests a pooled data ...

They found that just one treatment for acute low back pain and five treatments for chronic – or long-term – back pain were ...