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Low Back Pain Learning Center

Treatments could include:
A thorough differential diagnosis is important before any treatment is considered. There are times when alternative therapies may be most beneficial, and other times when more invasive treatments are needed.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
All forms of treatment of low back pain are aimed either at symptom relief or to prevent interference with the processes of healing. None of these methods appear to speed up healing.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Many people will feel better within one week after the start of back pain. After another 4-6 weeks, the back pain will likely be completely gone. To get better quickly, take the right steps when you first get pain.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 10, 2009
Your back pain may not go away completely, or it may get more painful at times. Learning to take care of your back at home and how to prevent repeat episodes of back pain can help you avoid surgery.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 10, 2009
Heat treatments are therapeutic applications of superficial or deep-heating agents to areas of the body.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Heat treatments are applications of therapeutic thermal agents to specific body areas experiencing injury or dysfunction.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cryotherapy is a technique that uses an extremely cold liquid or instruments to freeze and destroy abnormal or cancerous skin cells that require removal. The technique has been in use since the turn of the century, but modern techniques have made ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Cryotherapy is a technique that uses an extremely cold liquid or instrument to freeze and destroy abnormal skin cells that require removal. The technique has been in use since the turn of the century, but modern techniques have made it widely avai...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cryotherapy is a technique that uses an extremely cold liquid or instrument to freeze and destroy abnormal skin cells that require removal. The technique has been in use since the turn of the century, but modern techniques have made it widely avai...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Physical therapists provide services to restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain , and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities among those suffering from injuries, disabilities, or disease.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The professional field consists of skilled health care providers who work under the direction or supervision of a physical therapist or physical therapists. Their role is to facilitate care and treatment of patients with injuries, diseases, or dis...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Chest physical therapy is the term for a group of treatments designed to improve respiratory efficiency, promote expansion of the lungs, strengthen respiratory muscles, and eliminate secretions from the respiratory system.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Traction is the use of a pulling force to treat muscle and skeleton disorders.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Lateral traction is a technique in which tension is used to move a body part to the side or away from its original location.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 10, 2009
Traction is force applied by weights or other devices to treat bone or muscle disorders or injuries.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Spinal traction is the process of applying force through body weight, weights, and/or pulleys to draw apart the vertebrae of the spine.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
A therapeutic approach based on the principle that maladaptive moods and behavior can be changed by replacing distorted or inappropriate ways of thinking with thought patterns that are healthier and more realistic. Cognitive therapy is an approach...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and "negative" emotions. (Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-produ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cognitive therapy is a psychosocial (both psychological and social) therapy that assumes that faulty thought patterns (called cognitive patterns) cause maladaptive behavior and emotional responses. The treatment focuses on changing thoughts in ord...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Electrical nerve stimulation, also called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), is a noninvasive, drug-free pain management technique. By sending electrical signals to underlying nerves, the battery-powered TENS device can relieve a ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Electrotherapy is the use of electrical stimulation for therapeutic purposes. Specifically, electrotherapy uses energy waves that are part of the electromagnetic spectrum to produce desired physiological and chemical effects in the body.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) is a relatively new technique used to treat chronic pain and tremors associated with Parkinson disease . ESB is administered by passing an electrical current through an electrode implanted in the brain.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Spinal fusion is a procedure that promotes the fusing, or growing together, of two or more vertebrae in the spine.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Spinal fusion is surgery to fuse spine bones (vertebrae) that cause you to have back problems. Fusing means two bones are permanently placed together so there is no longer movement between them. Spinal fusion is usually done along with other surgi...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 4, 2009
A laminectomy is a surgical procedure in which the surgeon removes a portion of the bony arch, or lamina, on the dorsal surface of a vertebra, which is one of the bones that make up the human spinal column. It is done to relieve back pain that has...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
Laminectomy is surgery to remove the lamina, two small bones that make up a vertebra, or bone spurs in your back. The procedure can take pressure off your spinal nerves or spinal column.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 4, 2009
Laminectomy is a surgical procedure that entails opening the spinal column to treat nerve compression in the spinal cord.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Disk removal is one of the most common types of back surgery. Diskectomy (also called discectomy) is the removal of an intervertebral disk, the flexible plate that connects any two adjacent vertebrae in the spine. Intervertebral disks act as shock...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
One of the most common types of back surgery is disk removal (diskectomy), the removal of an intervertebral disk, the flexible plate that connects any two adjacent vertebrae in the spine. Intervertebral disks act as shock absorbers, protecting the...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Diskectomy is surgery to remove all or part of a cushion that helps protect your spinal column. These cushions, called disks, separate your spinal bones (vertebrae. When one of your disks herniates (moves out of place), the soft gel inside pushes ...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 4, 2009
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