Treatment of chronic low back pain - new approaches on the horizon.

ABSTRACT: Back pain is the second leading cause of disability among American adults and is currently treated either with conservative therapy or interventional pain procedures. However, the question that remains is whether we, as physicians, have adequate therapeutic options to offer to the patients who suffer from chronic low back pain but fail both conservative therapy and interventional pain procedures before they consider surgical options such as discectomy, disc arthroplasty, or spinal fusion. The purpose of this article is to review the potential novel therapies that are on the horizon for the treatment of chronic low back pain. We discuss medications that are currently in use through different phases of clinical trials (I-III) for the treatment of low back pain. In this review, we discuss rev

SUBMITTER: Knezevic NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5436786 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature