If youve ever had trouble recovering from a bad back, youre far from alone.
Scientists in Australia led the research,publishedTuesday in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine.
Just about everyone will experience low back pain at least once in their lives.
Roughly 40% of Americans have experienced back pain in the past three months.© PeopleImages.com - Yuri A via Shutterstock
We were motivated to conduct this review because non-surgical and non-invasive approaches are recommended as the initial treatment approach.
Unfortunately, even the top-performing remedies were pretty mediocre.
And there are other commonly touted remedies for back pain that have never been tested in placebo-controlled trials.
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