The analysis found NSAIDs effective for acute low back pain vs. placebo, while non-drug treatments showed no significant ...

Other treatments, like exercise therapy, were also ineffective for acute pain, despite their benefits for chronic pain. For chronic back pain, only five treatments had moderate-certainty evidence ...

Treatments that didn't work: For acute low back pain, exercise, glucocorticoid (cortisone) shots, and acetaminophen were not effective. For chronic back pain, antibiotics and anesthetics ...

Researchers have reviewed non-drug and non-surgical treatments for low back pain to assess which ones are more likely to ...

Joint Pain and Arthritis Contrary to popular belief, people with arthritis benefit from movement. Low-impact exercises help ...

Exercise—especially programs tailored to ... and it likely does not improve how well you function if you have acute back pain. Traction, which involves stretching the spine using weights or ...

Meanwhile, the research concluded that three treatments for acute low back pain (exercise, glucocorticoid injections, and acetaminophen) and two for chronic low back pain (antibiotics and ...

or acute, low back pain. Five other treatments had good enough evidence to be considered effective at reducing chronic low back pain. These were exercise; spinal manipulation, like you might ...

There was limited or inconsistent evidence on the cost-effectiveness of exercise therapy compared with usual care for neck pain and acute low back pain, other interventions for acute low back pain and ...

Three treatments for acute low back pain (exercise, glucocorticoid injections, and paracetamol) and two for chronic low back pain (antibiotics and anesthetics) showed no efficacy with moderate ...