Findings of a real-world study confirm guidelines that recommend physical therapy as first-line treatment; it has a slight edge over cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new treatment called cognitive functional therapy, or CFT, may provide long-lasting relief for people with chronic lower back ...

A sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) found that people with chronic low back pain experienced slight ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Injury, age and poor posture can all contribute to herniated or bulging discs, which is a common cause of upper and lower back pain. Treatments range from pain management to ...

A just-released publication by psychologist and neuroscientist Yoni Ashar and colleagues in JAMA Psychiatry begins by clarifying that as many as 20 percent of Americans suffer from chronic back pain.

Joe Laurence, a firefighter in Western Australia, was pulling a hose over a fence when he felt a sharp pain shoot down his back. “It was pretty horrific at the time,” said Laurence, then 27. “From ...

Eight weeks of mindfulness or cognitive behavioral therapy were associated with improved pain, physical function and quality of life and reduced daily opioid dose in adults with chronic low back pain ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Patients seeking pain relief may have a new option. Injuries like torn ligaments and tendons and strained muscles could sideline you for months. But many patients are finding ...