Back Pain

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Comparison of Minimally Invasive and Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Grade 1 Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: An Analysis of the Prospective Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • A benefit of spinal manipulation as adjunctive therapy for acute low-back pain: a stratified controlled trial. 
  • A genome-wide Drosophila screen for heat nociception identifies α2δ3 as an evolutionarily conserved pain gene. 
  • A magnetic resonance imaging framework for quantifying intervertebral disc deformation in vivo: Reliability and application to diurnal variations in lumbar disc shape. 
  • A multi-center evaluation of the McGill Pain Questionnaire: results from more than 1700 chronic pain patients. 
  • A study of psychophysical scaling in chronic pain patients. 
  • A survey on the importance of lumbar coupling biomechanics in physiotherapy practice. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Low Back Pain: 2021 Update. 
  • Adipose tissue in the filum terminale: a computed tomographic finding that may indicate tethering of the spinal cord. 
  • An analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database, Part 1. Disability, quality of life, and pain outcomes following lumbar spine surgery: predicting likely individual patient outcomes for shared decision-making. 
  • An analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database, Part 2. Predictive model for return to work after elective surgery for lumbar degenerative disease. 
  • An objective approach to quantifying pain behavior and gait patterns in low back pain patients. 
  • An over-the-counter central sensitization therapy: a chronic back pain registry study of pain relief, medication use and their adverse effects. 
  • Analyzing chronic low back pain: the relative contribution of pain coping strategies. 
  • Anterior disc excision and interbody spinal fusion for chronic low back pain. 
  • Anterior intervertebral discectomy and arthrodesis for treatment of low back pain with or without radiculopathy. 
  • Association Among Opioid Use, Treatment Preferences, and Perceptions of Physician Treatment Recommendations in Patients With Neck and Back Pain. 
  • Attitudes toward neurosurgery in a low-income country: a qualitative study. 
  • Back and neck pain: in support of routine delivery of non-pharmacologic treatments as a way to improve individual and population health. 
  • Back injuries among union carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2003. 
  • Back pain and paraplegia in a fifteen-year-old boy. 
  • Back pain in the elderly. 
  • Basis for spinal manipulative therapy: a physical therapist perspective. 
  • Behavioral assessment of low back pain: identification of pain behavior subgroups. 
  • Behavioral treatment of chronic low back pain: clinical outcome and individual differences in pain relief. 
  • Beliefs, Behavior, and Back Pain: Insights into Psychologically Informed Management. 
  • Beyond opioid patient-controlled analgesia: a systematic review of analgesia after major spine surgery. 
  • Bone morphogenetic proteins and degenerative disk disease. 
  • Bupropion in chronic low back pain. 
  • CSF corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoactivity in chronic pain patients with and without major depression. 
  • Can a Minimal Clinically Important Difference Be Achieved in Elderly Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Who Undergo Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery? 
  • Chronic low back pain and depression. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. I. Classification of depression in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. II. Symptoms of anxiety in chronic low back pain patients and their relationship to subtypes of depression. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. III. Family history study of depression and alcoholism in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Chronic pain and depression. IV. DST as a discriminator between chronic pain and depression. 
  • Chronic pain in psychiatric [correction of psychotic] patients. 
  • Circulating Omentin-1 and Chronic Painful Temporomandibular Disorders. 
  • Classification of older adults who underwent lumbar-related surgery using pre-operative biopsychosocial predictors and relationships with surgical recovery: An observational study conducted in the United States. 
  • Comparison of Complications and Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes Between Nonobese and Obese Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Undergoing Minimally Invasive Surgery. 
  • Complementary and alternative medicine usage by patients of a dental school clinic. 
  • Comprehensive study of back and leg pain improvements after adult spinal deformity surgery: analysis of 421 patients with 2-year follow-up and of the impact of the surgery on treatment satisfaction. 
  • Consensus building in metastatic spine disease. 
  • Conversion of hip arthrodesis to total joint arthroplasty. 
  • Cost of care for common back pain conditions initiated with chiropractic doctor vs medical doctor/doctor of osteopathy as first physician: experience of one Tennessee-based general health insurer. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of 10-kHz spinal cord stimulation therapy compared with conventional medical management over the first 12 months of therapy for patients with nonsurgical back pain: randomized controlled trial. 
  • Counseling Guidelines for Anticipated Postsurgical Improvements in Pain, Function, Mental Health, and Self-image for Different Types of Adult Spinal Deformity. 
  • Cracking the problem of back pain: is chiropractic the answer? 
  • Cross-Sectional Analysis of Per Capita Supply of Doctors of Chiropractic and Opioid Use in Younger Medicare Beneficiaries. 
  • CyberKnife rhizotomy for facetogenic back pain: a pilot study. 
  • Defining the minimum clinically important difference for grade I degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: insights from the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Degenerative adult onset scoliosis. 
  • Depression as a psychopathological disorder in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Depression, pain, and pain behavior. 
  • Differentiation of depression from chronic pain with the dexamethasone suppression test and DSM-III. 
  • Direct observation of pain behavior in low back pain patients during physical examination. 
  • Disabling back injuries in nursing personnel. 
  • Disc space infection: a case report with MRI diagnosis. 
  • Disc space infection: a case report with MRI diagnosis. 
  • Do estrogen or selective estrogen receptor modulators improve quality of life for women with postmenopausal osteoporosis? 
  • Do obese patients have worse outcomes after direct lateral interbody fusion compared to non-obese patients? 
  • Does evidence support the existence of lumbar spine coupled motion? A critical review of the literature. 
  • Early detection measures and triage procedures for suicide ideation in chronic pain patients. 
  • Effect of Comorbid Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis on Longitudinal Clinical and Health Care Use Outcomes in Older Adults With New Visits for Back Pain. 
  • Effects of time-limited vs unlimited compensation on pain behavior and treatment outcome in low back pain patients. 
  • Electromyographic evaluation of notalgia paresthetica. 
  • Emergency Department Attending Physician Variation in Opioid Prescribing in Low Acuity Back Pain. 
  • Enthusiasm for prescriptive clinical prediction rules (eg, back pain and more): a quick word of caution. 
  • Epidemiology of primary health problems in Beirut. 
  • Estimates and patterns of direct health care expenditures among individuals with back pain in the United States. 
  • Evaluation of a mosaic HIV-1 vaccine in a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1/2a clinical trial (APPROACH) and in rhesus monkeys (NHP 13-19). 
  • Explanatory multivariate modeling for disability, pain, and claims in patients with spine pain via a physical therapy direct access model of care. 
  • Fatty infiltration of the cervical extensor musculature, cervical sagittal balance, and clinical outcomes: An analysis of operative adult cervical deformity patients. 
  • Fear of movement, quality of life, and self-reported disability in obese patients with chronic lumbar pain. 
  • Frailty and Health-Related Quality of Life Improvement Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. 
  • Frequency and Acceptability of Adverse Events After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Survey Study From the Cervical Spine Research Society. 
  • Health seeking behavior as a predictor of healthcare utilization in a population of patients with spinal pain. 
  • Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia presenting as unilateral lower limb paralysis following lumbar spine surgery: case report. 
  • High-Frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation at 10 kHz for the Treatment of Nonsurgical Refractory Back Pain: Design of a Pragmatic, Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Iliac artery pseudoaneurysm following renal transplantation presenting as lumbosacral plexopathy. 
  • Illness behavior as a predictor of pain and overt behavior patterns in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Immunoreactive substance P is decreased in saliva of patients with chronic back pain syndromes. 
  • Improvement of back pain with operative and nonoperative treatment in adults with scoliosis. 
  • Inferior Clinical Outcomes for Patients with Medicaid Insurance After Surgery for Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A Prospective Registry Analysis of 608 Patients. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Interprofessional Attitudes and Interdisciplinary Practices for Older Adults With Back Pain Among Doctors of Chiropractic: A Descriptive Survey. 
  • Investigation of nonmechanical findings during spinal movement screening for identifying and/or ruling out metastatic cancer. 
  • Laminectomy alone versus fusion for grade 1 lumbar spondylolisthesis in 426 patients from the prospective Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Long-term morbidities following unintentional dural puncture in obstetric patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Low Risk for Persistent Back Pain Disability Is Characterized by Lower Pain Sensitivity and Higher Physical Performance. 
  • Lumbar disc excision in children and adolescents. 
  • Management of iatrogenic flat-back syndrome. 
  • Measurement Properties of the Oswestry Disability Index in Recipients of Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Medical disability assessment of the back pain patient for the Social Security Administration: the weighting of presenting clinical features. 
  • Minimally invasive versus open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for grade I lumbar spondylolisthesis: 5-year follow-up from the prospective multicenter Quality Outcomes Database registry. 
  • Minimally invasive, robot-assisted, anterior lumbar interbody fusion: a technical note. 
  • Motor paralysis of the lower extremities following lumbar sympathetic block. 
  • Multicolumn spinal cord stimulation for predominant back pain in failed back surgery syndrome patients: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. 
  • Narcissism and the development of chronic pain. 
  • Neurovegetative symptoms in chronic pain and depression. 
  • New persistent opioid use after acute opioid prescribing in pregnancy: a nationwide analysis. 
  • Obese Patients Benefit, but do not Fare as Well as Nonobese Patients, Following Lumbar Spondylolisthesis Surgery: An Analysis of the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Osteoporosis. 
  • Over Half of Clinical Trials of Mobilization and Manipulation for Patients With Low Back Pain May Have Limited Real-World Applicability: A Systematic Review of 132 Clinical Trials. 
  • Pain behavior and pain coping strategies in low back pain and myofascial pain dysfunction syndrome patients. 
  • Pain management programs. Clinical and research perspectives. 
  • Patient characteristics of smokers undergoing lumbar spine surgery: an analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Patients' use of physical therapy for lower back pain: A qualitative study. 
  • Percutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation of the Medial Branch Nerves for the Treatment of Chronic Axial Back Pain in Patients After Radiofrequency Ablation. 
  • Physical Performance Tests Provide Distinct Information in Both Predicting and Assessing Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Physician Satisfaction in Treating Medically Unexplained Symptoms. 
  • Posterior global malalignment after osteotomy for sagittal plane deformity: it happens and here is why. 
  • Predictors of lost time from work among nursing personnel who sought treatment for back pain. 
  • Preliminary study of thyrotrophin releasing hormone stimulation test in chronic low back pain patients. 
  • Prescription of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and muscle relaxants for back pain in the United States. 
  • Prevalence of Specific Types of Pain Diagnoses in a Sample of United States Adults. 
  • Proposing six criteria to improve reproducibility of "usual care" interventions in back pain trials: a systematic review. 
  • Psychological, mobility, and satisfaction variables mediate the relationship between baseline back pain intensity and long-term outcomes in individuals who underwent lumbar spine surgery. 
  • Psychosocial factors and surgical outcomes: are elderly depressed patients less satisfied with surgery? 
  • Quantifying the collective influence of social determinants of health using conditional and cluster modeling. 
  • Rare cause of back pain: Staphylococcus aureus vertebral osteomyelitis complicated by recurrent epidural abscess and severe sepsis. 
  • Reliability and validity of self and proxy reporting of morbidity data: a case study from Beirut, Lebanon. 
  • Results of surgical treatment of painful adult scoliosis. 
  • Risk and Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use Among Opioid-Naive Patients With Newly Diagnosed Musculoskeletal Pain in the Neck, Shoulder, Knee, or Low Back. 
  • Self reported morbidity and awareness regarding common cancers in elderly women. 
  • Self-report of depressive symptoms in low back pain patients. 
  • Serotonin syndrome in a chronic-pain patient receiving concurrent methadone, ciprofloxacin, and venlafaxine. 
  • Sex- and age-specific genetic analysis of chronic back pain. 
  • Sexual Dysfunction Secondary to Lumbar Stiffness in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients Before and After Long-Segment Spinal Fusion. 
  • Small Decline In Low-Value Back Imaging Associated With The 'Choosing Wisely' Campaign, 2012-14. 
  • Spondyloarthropathy presenting at a young age: case report and review. 
  • Stability of mood states and biochemistry across pregnancy. 
  • Study on the relationship between backpack use and back and neck pain among adolescents. 
  • Surgical correction of lumbar kyphotic deformity: posterior reduction "eggshell" osteotomy. 
  • Symptoms of musculoskeletal disorders in ophthalmologists. 
  • Team Approach: Safety and Value in the Practice of Complex Adult Spinal Surgery. 
  • The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Patients With Spinal Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. 
  • The Global Spine Care Initiative: World Spine Care executive summary on reducing spine-related disability in low- and middle-income communities. 
  • The Incidence of Spinal Cord Injury in Implantation of Percutaneous and Paddle Electrodes for Spinal Cord Stimulation. 
  • The Influence of Patient Choice of First Provider on Costs and Outcomes: Analysis From a Physical Therapy Patient Registry. 
  • The Influence of a Guideline-Concordant Stepped Care Approach on Downstream Health Care Utilization in Patients with Spine and Shoulder Pain. 
  • The Neuroimaging Spectrum of Septum Posticum Derangement and Associated Thoracic Myelopathy. 
  • The Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome (OSPRO) in patients with musculoskeletal pain conditions: a longitudinal validation cohort from the USA. 
  • The assessment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis: disease differentiation and temporal stability of a behavioral observation method. 
  • The association of complementary and alternative medicine use and health care expenditures for back and neck problems. 
  • The clinical value of a cluster of patient history and observational findings as a diagnostic support tool for lumbar spine stenosis. 
  • The dexamethasone suppression test as a biologic marker of depression in chronic pain. 
  • The effect of spinal introducer needle use on postoperative back pain. 
  • The effects of neurokinin A, neurokinin B, and eledoisin on substance P analysis. 
  • The influence of a MOBile-based video Instruction for Low back pain (MOBIL) on initial care decisions made by primary care providers: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The relationship between cigarette smoking and chronic low back pain. 
  • The relative value of lumbar roentgenograms, metrizamide myelography, and discography in the assessment of patients with chronic low-back syndrome. 
  • The role of psychiatric and behavioral factors in the practice of medicine. 
  • The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment. 
  • Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) collaborative care for patients with axial spondyloarthritis (AcuSpA): protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. 
  • Treatment of chronic axial back pain with 60-day percutaneous medial branch PNS: Primary end point results from a prospective, multicenter study. 
  • Treatment outcome in low back pain patients: do compensation benefits make a difference? 
  • Trends in spinal pain management injections in academic radiology departments. 
  • Unusual presentation of an adult intramedullary spinal teratoma with diplomyelia. 
  • Using a behavioral model to identify factors associated with choice of provider for neck and low back pain: A systematic review. 
  • Utility of multilevel lateral interbody fusion of the thoracolumbar coronal curve apex in adult deformity surgery in combination with open posterior instrumentation and L5-S1 interbody fusion: a case-matched evaluation of 32 patients. 
  • Vitamin D insufficiency increases risk of chronic pain among African Americans experiencing motor vehicle collision. 
  • Warfarin and acetaminophen interaction: a summary of the evidence and biologic plausibility. 
  • What rheumatologists in the United States think of complementary and alternative medicine: results of a national survey. 
  • What started this? Debilitating longitudinally-extensive myelitis. 
  • Who is paying the bills? Health care costs for musculoskeletal back disorders, Washington State Union Carpenters, 1989-2003. 
  • Women fare best following surgery for degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis: a comparison of the most and least satisfied patients utilizing data from the Quality Outcomes Database. 
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  • Anwar, Muhammad Farooq, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Pain Management
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Keefe, Francis Joseph, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology & Neuroscience