Highlights• Accessing nature spaces is important in the self-management of chronic low back pain.• Accessibility is undermined by disability, environmental obstacles or hazards, or proximity.• This represents an unmet clinical need which could be explored through virtual reality therapy. AbstractChronic low back pain is a persistent and debilitating condition, and therapeutic outcomes in the long… Continue reading “Being away from everything”: Exploring the importance of access to #nature for individuals living with chronic low #back #pain
Tag: Chronic-pain
Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer #spine #pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials
Objective To address the comparative effectiveness of common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer (axial or radicular) spine pain.Design Systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs).Data sources Medline, Embase, CINAHL, CENTRAL, and Web of Science from inception to 24 January 2023.Study selection RCTs that enrolled patients with chronic non-cancer spine pain, randomised… Continue reading Common interventional procedures for chronic non-cancer #spine #pain: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised trials
How the #weather affects the #pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app
Weather has been thought to affect symptoms in patients with chronic disease since the time of Hippocrates over 2000 years ago. Around three-quarters of people living with arthritis believe their pain is affected by the weather.. ..Precipitation was not associated with an increased odds of a pain event (OR 0.996 (0.989–1.003) per 1 mm daily rainfall… Continue reading How the #weather affects the #pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app
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