According to a recent study, older Americans with chronic low back pain who received acupuncture had greater improvement in physical function and reduced pain than those who received usual medical care only, generally prescribed medications or physical therapy.
Metal rods, screws and bone grafts have long been the backbone of spinal fusion surgeries — a fix for fractured spines, worn-out discs or bones that refuse to heal on their own. The hardware works. But it’s also rigid and invasive, and often leaves patients with lingering pain, stiffness and the need for follow-up surgeries down the road. At the University of Missouri, a team of engineers is working on a new approach. In the Biomodulatory Materials Engineering Laboratory in the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health building, researchers led by Principal Investigator Bret Ulery are building a future where spines heal not through steel, but through biology — using tiny, bioactive materials made from therapeutic peptides to guide the body’s natural repair processes from the inside out.
This is the largest study on SGKRS for large BM and the only one to evaluate the effect of concurrent or adjuvant systemic treatment. The findings of this retrospective cohort study of patients with large BM indicate that treatment with SGKRS results in high local control at 12 months (83 %). Receiving any type of concurrent or adjuvant systemic treatment further improves local control in compared to receiving no systemic treatment.
Hyperthymesia is a form of exceptional memory in which someone can automatically recall personal events from dates in their life with exhaustive, vivid detail.The cause of hyperthymesia is unknown but is thought to be linked to differences in the amygdala and hippocampus of the brain, which process memories.
Steroids, also known as corticosteroids, are synthetic hormones that can help reduce swelling and inflammation in the body, which may help improve back pain.
