Rehabilitation News

A multidisciplinary back pain app yielded better outcomes than a combination of physiotherapy and online education for patients with low back pain, according to recently published results.

Integrated physical medicine services in employer-sponsored health clinics may decrease wait times, improve clinical outcomes and lower the costs of care for patients with common musculoskeletal conditions, according to results published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

In the immediate postoperative period after total knee replacement, a pedaling-based protocol had superior functional and patient-reported outcomes compared with a standard multi-exercise-based protocol, according to recently published results.

People receiving only tramadol after surgery were at slightly higher risk for prolonged opioid use than those receiving other short-acting opioids, according to findings published in BMJ.

Reflexion Health announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for the Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant to be used for trunk and upper extremities. The digital therapy platform had already been cleared by the FDA for lower extremities.

ORLANDO — Patients who participated in internet-based physical therapy after partial meniscectomy experienced outcomes equivalent to those found with outpatient physical therapy, according to results presented at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting.

TORONTO — Over a period of 12 years, hospital readmission rates declined among patients who underwent elective surgery for osteoarthritis, yet emergency department visits rose, according to findings presented here.

Changes in MRI-based features progressed in patients with meniscal tears and osteoarthritis regardless of whether they underwent arthroscopic partial meniscectomy or were treated nonoperatively and underwent physical therapy, according to published research.

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has filed a lawsuit against a Manhattan stem cell clinic and the physician running it for allegedly selling unproven treatments for lupus and other autoimmune conditions, among others.

Prof. Bart Morlion, MD, PhD, is president of the European Pain Federation EFIC. Although trained as an anesthesiologist, for the past 2 decades he has focused 100% in pain medicine. Prof. Morlion is the director of the Leuven Centre for Algology & Pain Management at the University Hospitals of Leuven. He teaches pain management and pharmacology at the University of Leuven Medical School where he directs a multidisciplinary pain center. His professional interests include all aspects of multimodal chronic pain management, cancer pain management, pharmacotherapy of pain and quality management.