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Low-level heat wrap therapy safely reduces low back pain and ... - innovations report

The use of continuous low-level heat wrap therapy (CLHT) significantly reduces acute low Back Pain and related disability and improves occupational Performance of employees in physically demanding jobs suffering from acute low Back Pain, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in the December 2005 issue of The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. "With recent concerns around the safety of oral pain medications, both patients and physicians are considering alternative treatment options for acute low back pain," said Edward J. Bernacki, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s principal investigator. "The dramatic relief we see in workers using CLHT shows that this therapy has clear benefits for low Back Pain and that it plays an important role in pain management. Physicians and other health care providers in an occupational environment can tell patients that CLHT is a safe and effective alternative for treating acute low back plain."In the study, 43 patients (age 20 to 62) who visited an occupational injury clinic for low Back Pain were randomized into one of two intervention arms: 18 patients received Education regarding back therapy and pain management alone, while 25 received Education regarding - More available

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