Patients With Acute Low-Back Pain Can Benefit From Intensive Education

People with low-back pain who were given an additional individual two and a half-hour education session with a trained specialist on top of their usual care did better than those given normal care alone.Low-back pain is very common in adults, but most people find that it goes away over time. However, it does account for considerable healthcare costs and absenteeism from work. Therefore, many people are interested in finding ways of increasing the recovery rate.

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on January 29th, 2008