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The Association Between Obesity and Low Back Pain : A Meta-Analysis.
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It is found that overweight and obesity increase the risk of low back pain, and overweight and obesity have the strongest association with seeking care for low backPain and chronicLow back pain.About:
This article is published in American Journal of Epidemiology.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 618 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Low back pain.read more
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What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention
Jan Hartvigsen,Mark J. Hancock,Alice Kongsted,Quinette Louw,Manuela L Ferreira,Stéphane Genevay,Damian G Hoy,Jaro Karppinen,Glenn Pransky,Joachim Sieper,Rob J. E. M. Smeets,Martin Underwood,Rachelle Buchbinder,Dan Cherkin,Nadine E. Foster,Christopher G. Maher,Maurits W. van Tulder,Johannes R. Anema,Roger Chou,Steven P. Cohen,Lucíola da Cunha Menezes Costa,Peter Croft,Manuela L. Ferreira,Paulo H. Ferreira,Julie M. Fritz,Douglas P. Gross,Bart W. Koes,Birgitta Öberg,Wilco C. Peul,Mark L. Schoene,Judith A. Turner,Anthony D. Woolf +31 more
TL;DR: Intensified research efforts and global initiatives are clearly needed to address the burden of low back pain as a public health problem, where health and other systems are often fragile and not equipped to cope with this growing burden.
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Non-specific low back pain
TL;DR: Two treatment strategies are currently used, a stepped approach beginning with more simple care that is progressed if the patient does not respond, and the use of simple risk prediction methods to individualise the amount and type of care provided.
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Lumbar disc degeneration and genetic factors are the main risk factors for low back pain in women: the UK Twin Spine Study
Gregory Livshits,Maria Popham,Ida Malkin,Philip N. Sambrook,Alex J. MacGregor,Tim D. Spector,Frances M K Williams +6 more
TL;DR: The main risk factors for reported episodes of severe and disabling LBP in UK women include the degree of LDD as assessed by MRI, being overweight and genetic heritability.
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Stem cell therapy for intervertebral disc regeneration: obstacles and solutions
Daisuke Sakai,Gunnar Andersson +1 more
TL;DR: Detailed basic research on IVD cells and their niche indicates that transplanted cells are unable to survive and adapt in the avascular niche of the IVD, and therefore this therapeutic strategy to succeed needs to be better defined.
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The association of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration on magnetic resonance imaging with body mass index in overweight and obese adults: A population-based study
Dino Samartzis,Jaro Karppinen,Daniel W. Chan,Keith D. K. Luk,Kenneth M.C. Cheung,Kenneth M.C. Cheung +5 more
TL;DR: The findings, in one of the largest studies to systematically assess lumbar disc degeneration on MRI, indicated a significant association between the presence, extent, and global severity ofDisc degeneration with weight in overweight and obese adults.
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