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Watch Your Back! How the Back Pain Industry is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less - And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Treatment [PDF]
[Excerpt] This book considers what we know about treatments for back pain and asks a number of critical questions. Are some of the most popular treatments really effective? Do they “cure” or even improve the problems they claim to address?
Deyo, Richard A, MD
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3D Bioprinting of Thick Adipose Tissues with Integrated Vascular Hierarchies
An advanced 3D bioprinting technique is used here to create thick adipose tissues with a central, vessel and extensive branching. The construct is made using alginate, gelatin and collagen‐based bioinks. Flow through the complex vessel network is demonstrated as well as its successful integration with a femoral artery following implantation in a rat ...
Idit Goldfracht+5 more
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Back Pain: Management & Controversies [PDF]
Back pain is the second most frequent chronic pain problem, just after headache, as a reason for patients to seek medical help. Suffering from back pain ranges from transient discomfort to frank incapacitation.
Dr Surendra Bhutra
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Design of an assistive trunk exoskeleton based on multibody dynamic modelling [PDF]
Low back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorder. To reduce its incidences, some back exoskeletons have been designed and already commercialized. However, there is a gap between the phases of device and testing on subjects. In fact, the main unsolved problem is the lack of realistic simulation of human-device interaction.
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Open-label placebo treatment in chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial
This randomized controlled trial was performed to investigate whether placebo effects in chronic low back pain could be harnessed ethically by adding open-label placebo (OLP) treatment to treatment as usual (TAU) for 3 weeks.
Cláudia Carvalho+5 more
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Individuals with low back pain: how do they view physical activity? [PDF]
Background. Recent guidelines for those with acute low back pain have advocated early resumption of normal activity and increased physical activity. Little is known about the relationship between low back pain and physical activity, and on the impact of ...
Dowell, Antony C.+5 more
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Gastric Adenocarcinoma Presenting as Chronic Back Pain: A Case Report [PDF]
Introduction: Early stage gastric cancer is usually asymptomatic. It is not until later stages of the disease, usually with metastasis, that patients typically develop symptoms that would prompt further evaluation.Case Report: We present a case of a ...
Cardriche, Dennis+2 more
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Joule‐assisted nanotherapeutic urethral stent harnesses a smart, biodegradable magnesium stent to orchestrate spatiotemporal theragenerative therapy for urethral strictures. Magnetically induced Joule heating enables on‐demand drug release and bacterial ablation, while simultaneously guiding urothelial regeneration.
Yuhyun Na+15 more
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Short-Term Effects of NO2 Exposure on Hospitalization for Chronic Kidney Disease
This study investigates the correlation between short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and hospitalization for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Lanzhou, China.
Wancheng Zhang, Ye Ruan, Jianglong Ling
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Back pain as a lifestyle disease
The frequency in which back pain is diagnosed and treated has markedly increased in the recent years. At present, back pain and dysfunction syndrome is becoming a lifestyle disease, along with hypertension and diabetes. It affects more and more people.
Kamil Koszela+2 more
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