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    Low back pain is one of the major causes for not only days lost at work, but also the early exit from the field of nursing. This can potentially be a major concern to address as policymakers and healthcare experts look to solve the nursing shortage problem. Project Back to Back is one initiative aimed at addressing this issue. It seeks to reduce the prevalence of low back pain experienced by nurses by introducing continual training in proper patient handling and Dru yoga classes to nurses working

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    Acupuncture for the treatment of low back pain Background Low back pain has been a major activity limitation for many people below the age of 45 years in the United States (Andersson, 1999). According to a study conducted in the U.S. in 1997, there are 54 percent patients that report back pain and using complementary therapy (Wolsko et al., 2003). Another survey conducted in 2002 indicated that while back pain led to most frequent patient visits to acupuncturists across U.S (Cherkin et al., 2002)

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    Low Back Pain (LBP) is a widely spread problem that affects people from various age groups and impair their physical and mental abilities, conversely to the fact that a lot of treatment techniques exist. Yet, there is still no common ground found amongst specialist, which one`s are the most promising. A common way of treating LBP are the Physiotherapy (PT) techniques which are various, although their efficiency is still under question. One of those techniques is traction, which is applicable in a

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    about Low Back Pain from Pain Management Specialists Aside from complaints of symptoms associated with common colds, complaints of backaches in adults are the most frequent ones that doctors hear. Unfortunately, for millions of people these backaches are chronic and painful conditions. Those that suffer from chronic low back pain may try numerous methods to relieve their pain without success. To successfully treat low back pain, patients should first be aware of the myths and realities of low back

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    identified as relevant to the topic chosen for systematic review proposal. The review will therefore be analysing the research methods, description of the study, design and significance of findings to the topic of research and management of chronic low back pain. Further, the review will discuss some strength and weakness associated with the chosen articles and relevant findings and their implication for current and future practice. Critical Literature Review has been described as a systematic process

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    Low back pain is felt by most people in their lifetime. People attach to it more importance only when it starts interfering with their daily life. They realize that they need to treat it. Arm yourself with a basic understanding of what causes back pain. You will then be able to better manage it when it happens. The basics of low back pain. It affects millions of Americans. It can be acute lasting from few days to a few weeks, or chronic when it lasts over 3 month. It could be caused by a sudden

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    Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a health condition that is defined as pain located in the posterior aspect of the body between the 12th rib and the inferior gluteal folds, with or without radiating pain (Dionne et al., 2008), which has continued at least three months and has caused pain on at least half the days in the past six months (Deyo et al., 2014). Chronic low back pain is a globally prevalent condition that affects many individuals. In fact, epidemiological studies have shown that 60 – 80%

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    his right buttock radiating to the back of his thigh and calf area. Upon lumbar X-ray examination it was reveal he has a compressed dis between L5 and S1. Question: What are some alternative approaches to treating pain? What would you tell a patient for treating a spinal condition? Access/generate: General overview of alternative to treating pain/spinal condition? Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is usually a combination of musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain. National guidelines outline the following

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    suffering chronic back pain being in warm water will cause vasodilation which will help lead blood towards the area of pain.1 Cold water can cause vasoconstriction which will help stop the blood from running to an area of acute injury. A systematic review by Waller , Lambeck , and Daly, composed of 37 aquatic therapy studies with 1007 participants, and picked 7 of those studies and used McGill Pain Questionnaire, Oswestry Disability Index, the number of work days lost from low back pain, and subjective

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    The single leading cause of disability worldwide is low back pain (LBP) (Salomon et al., 2013). In the U.S, approximately 80 percent of adults experience back pain sometime in their life, with a total health care expenditure of 90.7 billion in 1998 (Luo, Pietrobon, Sun, Liu, & Hey, 2004). LBP is the second most frequent systematic reason for visits to primary healthcare providers (Hart, Deyo, Cherkin, 1995) and is usually recurrent with exacerbations that tend to increase in severity. The total

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