view - BackCare.org - is a UK Charity which helps people manage and prevent back pain by providing advice, promoting self help, encouraging debate and funding scientific research into better back care. BackCare's self management programme, called Think-Back, has helped many people with long term back pain.

view - Low Back Pain - Why is low back pain common? How is low back pain diagnosed? What are the common causes? Low Back Sprain and Strain. Osteoporosis and Fractures. Protruding Disk. What is the best treatment? When is surgery needed? What is the lower back? Prevention. AAOS The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

view - A Patient's Guide to Low Back Pain - The parts of your spine and how they work. What happens when the disk begins to degenerate? Where does the pain come from in degenerative disk disease? Symptoms...how you perceive spine problems. The Cauda Equina Syndrome. Diagnosis... how we look into your back problem. Treatment... options available to help you with your back problem. Conservative treatment which includes exercise, medications, physical therapy, and other non-operative therapy. Surgical treatment --- which includes laminectomy, diskectomy, and spinal fusion in selected conditions. Medical Multimedia Group

view - Spine-Health - A comprehensive resource to understand, prevent and seek appropriate treatment for back pain and neck pain. Spine-health.com's mission is to help you understand, prevent and seek appropriate treatment for back pain, neck pain and related conditions. Its content is written by a multi-specialty group of medical professionals. Back pain is as much a part of the human condition as the common cold. In fact, eight out of ten adults will experience an acute episode of back pain at some point in their lifetime. Back pain is the second most common cause of missed workdays due to illness and the most common cause of disability. Fortunately, most episodes of back pain resolve with time: approximately 50% of patients will experience relief within two weeks and 90% within three months.

view - Back Pain in Children, a Common Clinical Problem in Children - Introduction and Educational Objectives. Diagnostic Algorithm. How to Interpret Plain Films of the Lumbar Spine. Differential Diagnosis for Back Pain in Children. Case Examples of Back Pain in Children. References, awards, reviews and comments. The University of Iowa Virtual Children's Hospital.

view - Back Pain Answers - Giving you the information to make informed decisions regarding minor and acute back pain. A lot of people think that sitting is easier on their backs than standing or lifting. Not true. Many people have the notion that, if their back pain gets bad enough, they can always resort to surgery. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not very many years ago, back pain patients were routinely put to bed, sometimes for weeks or months. No longer. It is not uncommon for instance, for anti-depressant medication to be prescribed for patients who suffer with back pain. MRI is simply not necessary for the diagnosis of the vast majority of back pain. What is necessary - and the area where many people are getting short shrift - is a good clinical exam made by an interested and experienced physician who isn't giving you the bum's rush. An injection of chymopapain into a herniated disc has saved many people from surgery. It has also caused many serious complications, but only in the U.S.

view - Back Pain - Is there only one kind of back pain? What is the structure of the back? What causes back pain (Ruptured Intervertebral Disc, Spinal Stenosis, Osteoarthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Injury or Accident, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica, Fibromyalgia, Paget's Disease). Sometimes pain felt in the back actually originates elsewhere in the body. Such problems may include: prostate trouble in men, problems with reproductive organs in women, kidney diseases, kidney infections, kidney stones, diseases of the intestines or pancreas (such as cancer or a blockage), cancer that has spread to the spine, multiple myeloma, curvature of the spine, a tumor on the spinal cord. Factors that can make back pain worse. How Is a diagnosis made? Treatment for Back Pain. Coping with Chronic Back Pain.

view - MEDLINEplus Back Pain - The National Institutes for Health links page on back pain: Anatomy/Physiology, Clinical Trials, Diagnosis/Symptoms, Prevention/Screening, Rehabilitation, Specific Conditions/Aspects, Treatment, Directories, Organizations, Children , Spanish Sites.

view - Clinical Guidelines for the management of Acute Low Back Pain - Methods of the Evidence Review and Recommendation Development. Evidence Review. Principal Recommendations Linked to Evidence. Charts and Algorithms adapted from the Clinical Standards Advisory Group Report on Back Pain. Royal College of General Practitioners

view - BBC Online Health & Fitness: The Back Pain Guide - Four out of five adults will experience some back pain at some time in their life. However, because the back is actually a complex system and not just vertebrae lined up in a row, every back pain sufferer is different - with different needs and treatment options. This website gives general advice, but puts the emphasis on pointing you in the right directions to help yourself - without providing individual suggestions for specific treatment.

view - Postgraduate Medicine: Patient Notes: Sciatica Sciatica - The sciatic nerves are the largest nerves in the body--about as big around as your finger. They start in the lower spine, pass behind the hip joint, and go down the buttock and back of the leg to the foot. Pain from this nerve, called sciatica, may be felt from the hip to the big toe. What causes sciatica? Is sciatica different from back pain? What can I do for sciatica? Tips on avoiding sciatica. postgradmed.com

view - In sciatica, there is a pain down into the leg, which travels below the knee, and may involve the foot. There may be numbness and there may be weakness of the lower leg muscles. These symptoms may come on their own, but are often combined with low back pain. The order in which the symptoms appear may vary. Sometimes the back pain comes before the sciatica, and sometimes will follow. medinfo.co.uk

view - Muscle Spasms/Sciatica - Treatment and help (Sciatica and Acupuncture A first-person story about using accupuncture for sciatica). Chiropractic Treatment of Sciatica (Marbleheard Chiropractic describes treatment of sciatica). Spasms Connected to Chronic Fatigue (Best of the Net Various homeopathic treatments for muscle cramps and spasms). Different from Other Back Pain (sciatica in layman's terms, along with how it differs and is thus treated differently from other back pain). backandneck.about.com

view - piriformis-sciatica- injury:piriformis-sciatica(3.0) Rate of piriformis-sciatica is 3.0 per 100 respondents (26 of 870) Patterns: sciatic, sciatica, piriformis-sciatica, piriformis

view - Sciatica, Acupuncture and Traditional Oriental Medicine - My very first experience with traditional Chinese medicine came when I had some sciatica pain during a kung fu workout. I asked my kung fu teacher about it. He showed me some acupoints on my leg to press at home that night and the next day. They weren't too hard to get to, but it was nice for him to press them for me this first time. To my utter amazement, the pain was 95% gone the very next day. The sciatica pain that began in my lower back and radiated down to my little toe was gone after one session of acupressure. In my experience, the pain would peak for about three days, and then take about two weeks to completely fade away. But in this case it was completely gone in two days.

view - Sciatica can baffle physicians and other medical professionals, arising without warning and going on and on. Sciatica often accompanies low back pain, which is incredibly widespread, it can cripple its victims and drive them to seek all sorts of solutions, both appropriate and ineffective. It's incredibly widespread, second only to the common cold. sciatica.org

view - A resource of free information for sciatica sufferers - What causes sciatica ? Sometimes the nerve is pinched between vertebrae, or its passageways are narrowed by arthritis or swelling of a sprained ligament in the area, and it becomes irritated and tender. Rarely, an abscess, blood clot, or growth may push on the nerve.  At times, no exact cause is found, but a movement that is normally harmless (such as bending over) suddenly brings on violent pain. Although recent studies point to normal activity as the best treatment, the most common therapy involves resting for a couple of days, followed by a  normal routine and low-impact exercise.

view - Surgical treatment for patients with certain types of lower back pain provides better relief than nonsurgical treatment, according to studies by researchers from the MGH, the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation and the University of Washington at Seattle. The studies, reported in the August Spine, looked at patients treated for two common causes of low back and leg pain -- sciatica, severe lower back pain that radiates into a leg, and spinal stenosis, a narrowing of the canal carrying the spinal cord that causes back and leg pain in the elderly. In both groups, surgically treated patients reported greater levels of improvement after one year than those treated by such nonsurgical means as rest, medication, exercise, physical therapy and spinal manipulation.

view - Back Pain Relief - The Ultimate Guide teaches pain management skills such as Feldenkrais, Somatics, Acupressure, Reflexology, Yoga, Meditation & more for ailments such as sciatica, fibromyalgia, piriformis syndrome, lumbago, and many other types of back pain. backpainalternatives.com

view - Lower Back Pain - Introduction About Dr. Arnold J. Weil, Find Out More About Low Back Pain, Non-Surgical Treatment of Back Pain, Other Orthopaedic Injuries, Frequently Asked Questions, Rehab Review, Other Interesting Web Sites

view - The Back Pain Resource Center is a website dedicated to providing you information and survival skills for managing and living with back pain. In our main section, Survival Techniques, we will be exploring the myriad of survival skills we have come across - from Rolfing and deep tissue massage, to magnet therapy, Reconstructive Therapy and the Alexander Method - that may be able to help you find some pain relief. Some may be familiar to you, such as heat and ice, while others like Feldenkrais or Pilates may be new. We are continually adding reviews of different techniques and products, so keep checking back.

view - ERGONOMIC EXERCISE  PROGRAMS Ergonomic Evaluations/ Training for Business Animated Desk Stretching Program 10 exercises you can do at you deskprevent neck, back and wrist strain  ( RSI, Carpal tunnel )Purchase the program and put it on your desktop Ball Exercises  Ball Strengthening Program Strengthen postural musclesStrengthen arms and upper backWork on balance. backandbodycare.com (content page)

view - Anatomy of the sciatic nerve Anatomy of the sciatic nerve

view - Sciatica Pain Relief The Sacro Wedgy - Relief for Back and Sciatica Pain Less than half the cost of one office visit Use in your own home 10-20 minutes daily. The Sacro Wedgy, is a simple, effective, and inexpensive alternative for sciatica, fibromyalgia, piriformis syndrome, lumbago, and all kinds of back, hip, leg and heel pain.

view - Sciatica - Sciatica is a pain in the butt, literally. Caused by an irritation of the sciatic nerve, this pain can radiate down the back of the leg and all the way to the foot. It feels like burning, pins and needles or an electrical sensation. It has many causes, including tight hamstrings, tight buttocks, biomechanical problems, leg-length discrepancy. runnersworld.com

view - Sciatica and the McKenzie Method - The McKenzie Method addresses sciatica in two different ways, depending on its cause. If the sciatica is caused by damage to a disc, the McKenzie therapist tries different specialized exercises to determine which of these will reduce or relieve the symptoms. When the indicated McKenzie exercise is identified, the patient is taught to do the simple exercise at home. When the symptoms move out of the legs, buttocks, and centralize back to the lower back, additional exercise movements are utilized to relieve the underlying disc problem. mckenziemethod.com

view - The Complete Resource for information on the human spine. thespinepage.com

view - Sciatica - This is a condition which causes pain down the back of one or both thighs. Inflammation of the sciatic nerve (which is the largest nerve in the body-about the diameter of your little finger) can be either constant or intermittent. Success in solving this problem is directly correlated to the diagnosis. Sciatica can be caused by a pinched nerve as it exits the low back spine or it can be caused by prostatic cancer. Odds are usually that the cause is some structural imbalance. RunningDr Sports Running Clinic

view - A new minimally-invasive procedure provides relief for lower back and leg pain! - Arthroscopic Microdiscectomy has evolved into Selective Endoscopic DiscectomyTM which may include Adjunctive Endoscopic Therapies. It is now possible to diagnose and treat back pain and leg pain as separate entities featuring an advanced endoscopic spine system that incorporates thermal and laser therapy.