Medical Physiotherapy Articles & Analysis
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Pain at Work Brian is a 55-year-old Maintenance Tech at a leading food processing company. With over 20 years of chronic knee pain, it was difficult to do his job. All of the climbing, kneeling, lifting, and squatting needed to do his job was aggravating his knee pain. As a result, he resorted to working in awkward positions to try and avoid pain. Brian’s doctor told him he had arthritis in ...
Abstract Background Impaired neuromuscular control and degeneration of the multifidus muscle have been linked to the development of refractory chronic low back pain (CLBP). An implantable restorative-neurostimulator system can override the underlying multifidus inhibition by eliciting episodic, isolated contractions. The ReActiv8-B randomized, active-sham-controlled trial provided ...