Therapeutic Use of Reduces the Progression of Experimental Osteoarthritis.

Pain is recognized as one of the main symptoms in knee osteoarthritis and is the main reason why patients seek medical attention. has been popularly used to relieve discomfort caused by various painful conditions. The objective of the study is to evaluate the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect of the crude extract of , in an experimental model of osteoarthritis.

[Disability and factors associated with gestational low back pain].

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of low back pain in pregnant women and to describe its characteristics and associated factors.

Methods: The participants were 269 pregnant women in the first to the third trimester of pregnancy, seen at the obstetrics outpatient clinic of a University Hospital in the Brazilian Northeast. We applied a questionnaire in order to obtain data regarding socio-demographic variables, obstetric history and characteristics of low back pain, as well as the Oswestry and Rolland Morris questionnaires to assess disability and a visual analog pain scale to measure pain intensity.