A recent study showed that paracetamol has little or no value in the management of two of the most common forms of persistent pain; spinal pain and osteoarthritis. This prompted the […]

Surgery has increasingly been chosen as a treatment for back pain despite the poor outcomes associated with the intervention. Recently the story of Tiger Woods has raised the question of […]

A commonly believed, yet widely disputed, explanation for the development and maintenance of low back pain (LBP) is dysfunction with the activation of certain trunk stabilisation muscles. Consequently, one of […]

Prof Peter O’Sullivan – and a range of patients he met at workshops in London – discuss some of the widely held myths about back pain which negatively impact on […]

It is commonly believed that pain is an inevitable part of getting older and that there is nothing to do about it except grit your teeth and deal with it. […]