In a 2002 survey of U.S. adults, 26 percent reported low back pain and 14 percent reported neck pain in the previous three months. Rates of imaging and therapy for back and neck problems have increased substantially in the last decade, but it is not clear how this has...
Neck pain has been steadily increasing over the past two decades and is now second to back pain, the most common musculoskeletal disorder. One of the newest randomized controlled studies on 94 Danish women suffering from trapezius muscle pain due to work-related...
An online survey to investigate predictors of high physical function in 2,580 people with fibromyalgia (FM) showed that significant explanatory variables of high physical function were: men, greater education, younger age, lower intensity fatigue, spasticity, and...
An article by Sherman KJ. Cherkin DC. Deyo RA, et al, discusses that patients frustrated with conventional care for back pain, turn increasingly to complementary and alternative medicine. Between 10% and 20% of visits to chiropractors, massage therapists, and...
Prolonged sitting may alter the passive stiffness of the lumbar spine. Consequently, performing full lumbar flexion movements after extended periods of sitting may increase the risk of low back injury. A study was performed on 12 normal subjects to quantify...
30-70% of cyclists suffer from cervical, dorsal, or lumbar back pain. There is a tendency towards hyperextension of the pelvic/spine angle which resulted in an increase in tensile forces at the sacral promontory. These forces can easily be reduced by appropriate...
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