Today, I had a chance to participate in a discussion facilitated by Nepal Physiotherapy Association on low back pain over Zoom and was broadcasted on the association’s official Facebook Page. I was very happy with the active engagement of everyone (other speakers and audiences). Very interesting questions were raised, and as promised, I am sharing […]
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) is working in various ways to achieve its vision of working together for pain relief throughout the world. The IASP has celebrates a global year on pain every year on an area of pain as one of its ways to improve pain relief worldwide. The theme […]
I flew to Nepal last week to deliver an invited talk on “low back pain- update” at Nepal Physiotherapy Association Conference (NEPTACON 2018). I received an overwhelming response: houseful presence, many questions, request to conduct longer sessions demonstrating how to educate/reassure patients with low back pain. Although I requested for an hour session, due to […]
Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal problems encountered by a clinician. For the purpose of screening and diagnosis of LBP, a diagnosis triage has been proposed for patients when first presenting to a clinician. The goal of diagnostic triage is to exclude non-spinal causes of back pain and to allocate […]
के तपाईलाई ढाड दुखेको छ ? यदि छ भने आउनुहोस् साहारा अस्पतालमा !!! यहाँ ढाड दुखाई सम्बन्धि अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय स्तरको अनुसन्धान भइरहेको छ । यस अनुसन्धानका प्रमुख अनुसन्धानकर्ता सौरब शर्माले निउजिल्याडको प्रतिष्ठित विश्वविध्यालयसँग आबद्ध भई आफ्नो PhD का लागि ढाड दुखाईको लागि बैज्ञानिक रुपमा प्रमाणित भइसकेका उपचारहरु तुलना गर्दै हुनुहुन्छ । यस अनुसन्धानमा भाग लिन र […]
After a very interesting discussion on exercise prescription for chronic low back pain on a previous post on chronic pain, I received an invitation to write a blog on exercises for chronic pain which I accepted to write. For writing this blog, I performed a narrative review of literature and summarized the evidences for three […]