Clinical guidelines are silent on the recommendation of physical activity and exercise therapy for low back pain: A systematic review.

Objectives: To synthesise and evaluate the quality of the recommendations for exercise therapy and physical activity from guidelines for the prevention and/or management of low back pain.

Design: Systematic review.

Methods: Included clinical practice guidelines for the management of low back pain published between 2014 and 2022 and searched in 9 databases until September 2022.

Challenges of conducting a randomised placebo-controlled trial of spinal surgery: the SUcceSS trial of lumbar spine decompression.

Although placebo-controlled trials are considered the gold standard for evaluating the efficacy of healthcare interventions, they can be perceived to be controversial and challenging to conduct for surgical treatments. The SUcceSS trial is the first placebo-controlled trial of lumbar decompression surgery for symptomatic lumbar canal stenosis. The SUcceSS trial has experienced common issues affecting the implementation of randomised placebo-controlled surgery trials, accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Call for Improving Research on Pain Neuroscience Education and Chronic Pain: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.

We aimed to summarize the evidence of the effects of pain neuroscience education delivered alone or combined with other interventions for chronic pain. An overview of systematic reviews with meta-analysis. CINAHL (via EBSCOhost), Embase, PsycINFO (via ProQuest), PubMed, and the Cochrane Library were searched from their inception to November 14, 2022.

Psychological interventions for chronic, non-specific low back pain: systematic review with network meta-analysis.

Objective: To determine the comparative effectiveness and safety of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain.

Design: Systematic review with network meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, SCOPUS, and CINAHL from database inception to 31 January 2021.

Factors associated with seeking medical care for low back pain in a twin adult sample.

Background: Previous studies have only investigated how symptom presentation and socio-demographic factors influence care-seeking for low back pain (LBP). However, the influence of health and lifestyle factors remains unclear, and the potential confounding effects of aggregated familial factors (including genetics and the early shared environment) has not been considered extensively.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was performed on 1605 twins enrolled in the Murcia Twin Registry (Spain).