A new review of the evidence finds that only a handful of common remedies provide a modest benefit for acute or chronic back ...

These two ways to sleep can improve an achey low back overnight. Plus, the worst sleeping position for back pain, according ...

Cooled radiofrequency ablation of lumbar nerves exhibited long-lasting, significant pain relief in patients with chronic low back pain.

Jason, a 42-year-old father of two, has been battling back pain for weeks. Scrolling through his phone, he sees ad after ad ...

Arthritis: Osteoarthritis is one of the major causes of back pain. This condition occurs when the cartilage of the joints in the lower back becomes damaged. Osteoarthritis can also worsen into ...

Open-label placebo yielded very modest analgesia in chronic low back pain, with better short- vs long-term outcomes.

Chronic back pain is the most common type of pain, affecting around 16 million American adults — and now a new study has revealed some discouraging findings about potential treatments.

For acute low back pain, there is moderate-certainty evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are an effective treatment.

Five other treatments had good enough evidence to be considered effective at reducing chronic low back pain. These were exercise; spinal manipulation, like you might receive from a chiropractor ...

In chronic low back pain, botulinum neurotoxin type A improved patients' pain and functional outcomes vs placebo and other local injection therapies.

The researchers reviewed 301 randomized, controlled trials that included data on 56 non-surgical treatments for adults experiencing acute low back pain, chronic low back pain, or a combination of ...