Do any non-drug treatments help back pain? Here’s what the Cochane evidence says
Rodrigo Rossi Nogueira Rizzo and Aidan Cashin share their Cochrane review findings on back pain in The Conversation today
Back pain can be challenging to manage, mainly due to widespread misunderstandings and the overwhelming number of ineffective and uncertain treatments promoted.
Today, two Australian Cochrane authors shared their assessment of the best available evidence of non-drug and non-surgical treatments to alleviate low back pain published in their new review which includes 31 Cochrane systematic reviews, covering 97,000 people with back pain.
It shows bed rest doesn’t work for back pain. Some of the treatments that do work can depend on how long you’ve been in pain.
