Back Care Awareness Week
This week is Back Care Awareness Week 2014. The theme this is office workers.
You might find it useful to check out the various back pain blogs we have run over the last few years. In particular we ran a very useful discussion blog on treating the symptoms of back pain here.
Please do share to help raise the profile of Back Care Awareness Week.
Many thanks in advance!
University of Colorado Denver
Please feel free to share with you friends and family.
As they say “If you aren’t in you can’t win”!
Payne Murphy writes “If you have already completed this research survey, thank you and there is no need to complete this again.
You are invited to take part in a research study: Acceptance-Based Factors in Chronic Pain: A Comparison Between Fibromyalgia and Low Back Pain Patients in an Internet Support Group Sample (COMIRB No: 13-3263). This study is being led by Jessica Payne-Murphy, M.A. at the University of Colorado Denver.
The study involves answering a series of online questionnaires designed to increase understanding of chronic pain. We are inviting participants (age 18 and older) who have been and are currently managing low back pain or fibromyalgia for at least 3 months to complete an online survey. It is anticipated that this survey will take approximately 30-45 minutes of your time to complete.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for one of up to ten $50 Amazon.com or Amazon.eu gift cards.
In addition, we request that you forward/share the survey link to other individuals with chronic low back pain or fibromyalgia who may wish to participate in this study so that they may have the opportunity to assist us in gathering information about chronic pain and online support groups.
Please click on the following link if you are interested in learning more about the research study”
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me
Thank you!
University of Colorado Denver
The University of Colorado Denver is running some interesting research with people who suffer from various types of chronic pain including fibromyalgia. Jessica Payne-Murphy, who is running the survey, has written a short post outlining the scope of the study!
Payne-Murphy writes “You are invited to take part in a research study: Acceptance-Based Factors in Chronic Pain: A Comparison Between Fibromyalgia and Low Back Pain Patients in an Internet Support Group Sample (COMIRB No: 13-3263). This study is being led by Jessica Payne-Murphy, M.A. at the University of Colorado Denver.
The study involves answering a series of online questionnaires designed to increase understanding of chronic pain. We are inviting participants (age 18 and older) who have been and are currently managing low back pain or fibromyalgia for at least 3 months to complete an online survey. It is anticipated that this survey will take approximately 30-45 minutes of your time to complete.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for one of up to ten $50 Amazon.com or Amazon.eu gift cards.
In addition, we request that you forward/share the survey link to other individuals with chronic low back pain or fibromyalgia who may wish to participate in this study so that they may have the opportunity to assist us in gathering information about chronic pain and online support groups.”
Please click on the following link if you are interested in learning more about the research study:
https://redcap.ucdenver.edu/surveys/?s=GCZEdEQBgd
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Payne-Murphy at at https://www.facebook.com/UCDChronicPainResearchStudy?ref=hl
Or use the comments boxes below to ask her any questions.
Pain
A few weeks ago I was interested to discover a treatment for back and neck pain called the McKenzie Method ®. The treatment, developed by a physical therapist from New Zealand called Robin McKenzie, is also known as Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) ®.
The method is of particular interest to me because it looks to self-help techniques as a treatment as opposed to more traditional interventions. But that is only part of MDT. It is an overall system of assessment, classification and treatment (and prevention) for various different types of pain. These include back pain, neck pain and leg joint pain.
From my reading of the method the objective is not to treat pain in localised areas but rather to treat the pain in the core back structure.
You can read up more about the exercise regime here http://www.mckenziemdt.org/approach.cfm?section=int.
That being said, as a picture is worth a thousand words, this video may also be of use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKoJfjTL098
The technique is becoming more popular so we were wondering if you had used it. It would be great if you could share your experiences of the McKenzie Method ®. You may wish to think in terms of the following questions?
a) Where was your pain and what was its cause?
b) Did you try any treatments before the McKenzie Method ®? How successful were they?
c) How did you hear about the McKenzie Method ®?
d) Tell us a bit more about the treatment process. How effective was it?
e) Overall how beneficial to you was the method?
Please feel free to use the comments box below to contribute any links and share your experiences.
Thanks in advance.
This week is Back Care Awareness Week 2013. Please like and share this page to help us raise awareness of back pain.
For more information on back pain please go to https://patienttalk.org/?p=389
For more information on Back Care Awareness Week 2013 you can visit http://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/ai1ec_event/back-care-awareness-week-2/?instance_id=1475
Back Care Awareness Week