Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Back Pain

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for back pain.
Reviewed May 2011

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Title:   Manual material handling advice and assistive devices for preventing and treating back pain in workers
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Back pain is very common among adults. There is evidence that individuals who physically move or lift objects (manual material handling) on a regular basis increase the strain on their backs and the risk of developing back pain. In many occupations, it ...
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Botulinum toxin injections for low-back pain and sciatica
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Back pain is a common symptom affecting roughly 50% of the population every year. For the majority of people, back pain goes away gradually - usually within several weeks. However, many people will experience another bout of back pain in the future. Abo...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is an intervention that is widely practiced by a variety of health care professionals worldwide. The effectiveness of this form of therapy for the management of chronic low-back pain has come under dispute. Low-back pai...
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Advice to rest in bed versus advice to stay active for acute low-back pain and sciatica
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain (LBP) is one of the most common conditions managed in primary care and a significant cause of absence from work and early retirement. Individuals, their families and society at large all carry part of the burden. Many people get some relie...
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Combined chiropractic interventions for low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain is one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal problems in modern society. About 80% of the population will experience low-back pain at some time in their lives. Many people with low-back pain seek the care of a chiropractor. For thi...
Date:   Nov 2009
Title:   Behavioural treatment for chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain is a major health and economical problem that affects populations around the world. Chronic low-back pain, in particular, is a major cause of medical expenses, work absenteeism, and disability. Current management of chronic low-back pain i...
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Neuroreflexotherapy for non-specific low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neuroreflexotherapy, provided in specialized clinics in Spain, appears to reduce pain and disability for patients with chronic non-specific low-back pain. Clinicians use a wide range of treatments to manage chronic low back pain. There is often little s...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Prolotherapy injections for chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Chronic low-back pain is a very common problem for which there is currently no universally effective treatment. Patients with chronic low-back pain have many treatment options and it is important for them to understand the evidence behind each treatment...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Exercises for prevention of recurrences of low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Back pain is a common disorder that has a tendency to recur. We conducted this review to see if exercises, either as part of treatment or as a post-treatment programme could reduce back pain recurrences. We searched for studies that included persons wit...
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Physical conditioning programs for improving work outcomes in workers with back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The main goal of physical conditioning programs, sometimes called work conditioning, work hardening or functional restoration/exercise programs, is to return injured or disabled workers to work or improve the work status for workers performing modified ...
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Antidepressants for non-specific low back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain is a common condition affecting up to 80% of adults over their lifetime. In the vast majority of cases, low-back pain has no identifiable cause and is termed
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Insoles for prevention and treatment of back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Back pain is one of the most common health problems in the industrialized world, with estimates that between 60% and 85% of the population will experience it at some point in their lives. Laboratory trials suggest that the use of shoe insoles might be b...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Transient neurologic symptoms (TNS) following spinal anaesthesia with lidocaine versus other local anaesthetics
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Lidocaine is the drug of choice for inducing spinal anaesthesia in ambulatory surgery because of its rapid onset of action, intense nerve blockade, and short duration of action. The possible side effects of spinal anaesthesia in adults, which develop af...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Massage for low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain (LBP) is one of the most common and costly musculoskeletal problems in modern society. Seventy to 85% of the population will experience LBP at some time in their lives. Proponents of massage therapy claim it can minimize pain and disabil...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Low level laser therapy for nonspecific low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sixty to eighty per cent of people suffer from back pain at some time in their lives. Of those who develop acute low-back pain (LBP), up to 30% will go on to develop chronic LBP. The toll on individuals, families and society makes the successful managem...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for low back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most frequently prescribed medications worldwide and are commonly used for treating low-back pain. This review found 65 studies (including over 11,000 patients) of mixed methodological quality that ...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Individual patient education for low back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain is a very common condition, particularly in developed countries. It can cause a great deal of pain and lost activity. Health professionals use patient education to help people learn about low-back pain and what to do about it, including: ...
Date:   Sep 2007
Title:   Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) versus placebo for chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain (LBP) represents a leading cause for work absenteeism and visits to health care professionals. Sixty to 90% of the adult population is at risk of developing LBP. While the majority of episodes appear to resolve within six weeks, recurren...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Opioids for chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Low-back pain is a major cause of pain, disability and cost to individuals, their families and society in general. Up to 85% of the general population will experience low-back pain at some point in their lives. In most cases, the pain eases within four ...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Injection therapy for subacute and chronic low-back pain
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Injection therapy is one of many treatments available for patients with subacute (longer than six weeks) and chronic (longer than 12 weeks) low-back pain. Where the injection is given, what drug is used and why the injection is given can all vary. The i...
Date:   Mar 2007

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