Original Research Less Than Half of Patients Recover Within 2 Weeks of Injury After a Sports-Related Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A 2 year Prospective Study This study challenges current perceptions that most people with a SR-mTBI (concussion) recover within 10…
Impact of Chiropractic Care on Use of Prescription Opioids in Patients with Spinal Pain Patients with spinal pain who saw a chiropractor had half the risk of filling an opioid prescription. Among those who saw a chiropractor within 30 days of…
Investigation of a possible association of potentially inappropriate medication for older adults and frailty in a prospective cohort study from Germany The association of PIM use and frailty seems to be restricted to drug classes, which can induce frailty symptoms…
Considerations and methods for placebo controls in surgical trials (ASPIRE guidelines) Placebo comparisons are increasingly being considered for randomised trials assessing the efficacy of surgical interventions. The aim of this Review is to provide a summary of knowledge on placebo…
Eliciting the Patient’s Agenda- Secondary Analysis of Recorded Clinical Encounters Clinicians seldom elicit the patient’s agenda; when they do, they interrupt patients sooner than previously reported. Physicians in specialty care elicited the patient’s agenda less often compared to physicians in…
Ginger on Human Health: A Comprehensive Systematic Review of 109 Randomized Controlled Trials The reporting quality of the included studies was assessed based on the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing the risk of bias in randomized trials and integrated together…
US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016 Estimates of US spending on health care showed substantial increases from 1996 through 2016, with the highest increases in population-adjusted spending by public insurance. Although spending on low back and…
Central nervous system contribution to mechanically produced motor and sensory responses Peripheral tissue pathology causes a rapid and enduring increase in the excitability of spinal cord neurones. This review examines some of the basic and clinical research which suggests that…
Effect of changes in the lumbar posture in lifting on trunk muscle and spinal loads: A combined in vivo, musculoskeletal, and finite element model study Collectively and with due consideration of the risk of fatigue and viscoelastic creep especially under…
Do Nutritional Factors Interact with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain? A Systematic Review On the basis of the available literature, there is some evidence that plant-based dietary patterns such as vegetarian and vegan diets might have pain-relieving effects on chronic musculoskeletal pain.…