It is one of the most common medical conditions in the world - yet we often don’t know what causes it, nor how best to treat ...

Scientists have been searching for better ways to treat back pain, and a new breakthrough may offer hope. A team led by Dr.

If you have back pain or decreased flexibility, you might want to consider receiving lumbar facet joint injections or lumbar facet steroid injections. Of course, you might first be wondering ...

Only 1 in 10 nonsurgical treatments for low back pain are more effective placebo, a review of 56 different treatments and ...

Spine injections should not be given to adults with chronic back pain because they provide little or no pain relief compared with sham injections, say a panel of international experts in The BMJ ...

Chronic back pain is the most common type of pain, affecting around 16 million American adults — and now a new study has ...

Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer spine pain, such as epidural steroid injections, nerve blocks, and radiofrequency nerve ablation, offer little to no pain relief compared to ...

Australian researchers have found that nine out of 10 treatments for back pain do not work as you would want. However, what ...

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

Having a higher socioeconomic status is associated with greater rates of surgical resource usage before spinal fusions, according to a study in the April 2025 issue of The Spine Journal. Five things ...