Back Pain

A single-session class on pain management skills was noninferior to 8-week cognitive behavioral therapy, and superior to a health education class, for pain catastrophizing in patients with chronic lower back pain, according to data.

According to a recent study, physicians with higher scores on the American Board of Internal Medicine exam were less likely to prescribe opioids for back pain than physicians with lower exam scores.

As the standard of care has shifted away from routine opioids for back pain, physicians with higher American Board of Internal Medicine exam scores have been less likely to prescribe opioids than those with lower scores, according to data.

Back pain was associated with a modest increase in all-cause mortality among women, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Antidepressants are mostly ineffective for treating back pain, but may be beneficial for osteoarthritis and sciatica, according to data published in BMJ.

Patients treated with 9 mg of fasinumab every 4 or 8 weeks, instead of 6 mg, experienced improvements in chronic lower back pain and function, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

A phase 3, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study is evaluating tolperisone in patients experiencing pain from acute muscle spasms in their back, according to a poster presentation at this year’s virtual PAINWeek meeting.

Buprenorphine buccal film treatment led to greater reductions in pain than placebo among patients with moderate or severe chronic low back pain with and without previous opioid exposure, according to research presented at this year’s virtual PAINWeek meeting.

Nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis may be under-diagnosed in the U.S. because inflammatory back pain, a key component of this condition, is often not diagnosed appropriately, according to data presented at the virtual ACR State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium.

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai developed an artificial intelligence model that can scan physicians’ notes and distinguish between acute and chronic lower back pain, according to findings published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.