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Motor Control Exercises Successful in Curbing Chronic Back Pain

Motor Control Exercises Successful in Curbing Back Pain For chronic low back pain, motor control exercises are better at reducing pain and disability than other treatments. (HealthDay News) – Motor ...
EurekAlert!

Report shows motor control exercises reduce persistent low-back pain

ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 28, 2009 – Motor control exercises, when performed in conjunction with other forms of therapy, can significantly reduce pain and disability in patients with persistent low back ...
BMJ

Changes in recruitment of transversus abdominis correlate with disability in people with chronic low back pain

3 The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 4 Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health, School of Health and ...
Nature

Exercise aids low back pain, but the choice is yours

The results of a Cochrane systematic review confirm those of previous smaller meta-analyses suggesting that motor control exercise (which focuses on activating and thereby restoring the coordination ...
Medscape

Low Back Pain: Does Exercise Help? What Type?

Last month, I posted a case from my own practice to highlight issues of pain management in primary care. To recap: The patient was a 50-year-old construction laborer with new-onset low back pain ...
BMJ

Exercise alone and exercise combined with education both prevent episodes of low back pain and related absenteeism: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised ...

Objectives We aimed to investigate which prevention strategies for low back pain (LBP) are most effective. Design We completed a Bayesian network meta-analysis to summarise the comparative ...