Medical Xpress April 3, 2025
Anyone who suffers from chronic low back pain knows how difficult it can be to manage, and how quickly it can turn the most ordinary activity into a daunting prospect. Nonspecific and difficult to pinpoint anatomically, its root causes often elude treatment and can result in a strikingly broad range of impairments.
That’s partly what makes back pain the number one health-care-related expenditure in the U.S., according to a study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Translation. And despite being one of the most common causes of disability in the world, surprisingly little progress has been made in developing effective treatments.
Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco are addressing the condition with comeBACK, a study that aims to...
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