In every country, back pain and depression are among the leading causes of years lived with disability; mental and substance abuse disorders cause one-fifth of disabling conditions People across the w...
Women who exercise during pregnancy are less likely to have gestational diabetes , and the exercise also helps to reduce maternal weight gain, finds a study published on 3 June 2015 in BJOG: an Intern...
Housework and childcare were associated with insufficient sleep Physical activities, such as walking, as well as aerobics/calisthenics, biking, gardening, golfing, running, weight-lifting, and yoga/Pi...
The Big Apple is one of the most walkable cities in the nation, providing many opportunities for physical activity, and New Yorkers are more likely to exercise regularly than the average U.S. adult. B...
New data from a cluster randomised controlled trial has demonstrated that back pain patients monitored and treated using wearable movement sensors from dorsaVi Ltd (ASX:DVL) had a significant and sust...
A group of experts have advised that people working in office environments stand for at least 2 hours a day during working hours, as part of a number of recommendations to protect those engaged with t...
Among patients with acute sciatica caused by a herniated lumbar disk (a condition also known as "acute radiculopathy"), a short course of oral steroids resulted in only modest improvement in function...
What are the most influential studies on surgery of the lower (lumbar) spine? The "top 100" research papers in lumbar spine are counted down in a special review in Spine , published by Wolters Kluwer....
In Austria, around ten per cent of over-65-year-olds are frail, while a further 40 per cent are in a preliminary stage of frailty. The Healthy For Life project, with the MedUni Vienna as the academic...
Using an innovative new imaging technique, researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles have found "strikingly similar" patterns of abnormal protein deposits in the brains of retired foot...
