Four Variables Were Sufficient for Low Back Pain: Determining Which Patient-Reported Tools Pain and Disability Improvements.

To predict 30- and 180-day improvements in disability and pain for patients seeking physical therapy care for low back pain (LBP). Longitudinal cohort. Baseline assessment was completed by 259 patients with chief complaint of LBP, and the assessment includes psychosocial measures (Keele STarT Back Screening [SBST] and the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Yellow Flag [OSPRO-YF] tools), the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Review of Symptoms (OSPRO-ROS) and the Review of Symptoms Plus (OSPRO-ROS+) tools, the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and the National Institute of Health Chronic Pain Criteria (NIH-CP).

Effects of manual therapy and exercise targeting the hips in patients with low-back pain-A randomized controlled trial.

Rationale: The benefits of providing manual therapy and exercise targeting the hips in individuals with mechanical low-back pain (LBP) are not well established.

Objectives: The objective in this study is to determine whether a formal prescriptive treatment protocol for the hips improves outcomes in patients with a primary complaint of mechanical LBP.

Methods: Eighty-four (84) subjects (50 males, 46.

Comparison of effects on colonic motility and stool characteristics associated with feeding olestra and wheat bran to ambulatory mini-pigs.

The goal of this study was to compare the stool-softening effects of olestra and wheat bran and to determine if changes in patterns of propagating colonic motility were associated with the observed stool softening. Mini-pigs were fed chow (control) or chow supplemented with olestra (80 g/day) or wheat bran (80 g/day) for four days. Proximal colonic motility was monitored continuously, stool viscosity and fecal output measured daily, and cecal-to-anal transit time determined.