Low back pain (LBP) is a common and costly medical condition associated with significant physical pain, impaired function, and loss of productivity. LBP is the leading cause of disability in the US ...

People with back pain and sciatica who got physical therapy had less disability and decreased back pain intensity compared with controls. By Nicholas Bakalar People with back pain are often referred ...

Early initiation of physical therapy (PT) for U.S. patients with acute lower back pain (LBP) was associated with less health care resource use in the first month and the first year after the initial ...

Beginning Jan. 1, Tricare beneficiaries in 10 states will have access to free physical therapy sessions for lower back pain. Defense Health Agency officials announced Tuesday that effective next year, ...

Joe Laurence, a firefighter in Western Australia, was pulling a hose over a fence when he felt a sharp pain shoot down his back. “It was pretty horrific at the time,” said Laurence, then 27. “From ...

A new national survey commissioned by boston scientific, which reveals that more than 7 in 10 individuals coping with chronic ...

Laser therapy for back pain offers the advantages of not requiring surgical incisions into the body and avoiding the potential adverse effects of long-term medication use. Some studies have shown that ...

Back decompression aims to relieve back pain by taking pressure off compressed spinal discs. There are surgical and nonsurgical methods of back decompression. Nonsurgical therapy includes spinal ...

The current number of therapists falls short of increasing demand. At no point along his three-year path to earning a degree in physical therapy has Matthew Lee worried about getting a job. Being able ...

It's not all in your head. But a promising new approach to treatment may offer relief to many sufferers of chronic pain. Vitaly Napadow, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts ...