A new study suggests a widely used bone hormone could help relieve chronic back pain in an unexpected way. Instead of just ...

Low back pain can be stubbornly mysterious. For millions of people, the ache persists for years, even when doctors can’t find ...

Most nonsurgical and noninterventional treatments for low back pain failed to outperform placebo in a new systematic review and meta-analysis, with just 10% showing only modest pain relief.

At some point, 60% of the population has had or will have lower back pain, says Kin M. Yuen, M.D., a sleep medicine specialist at UCSF Health in San Francisco, California. That means at any one point, ...

Lower back pain can contribute to many other physical and mental health conditions. Complications may depend on the cause of the back pain but include pain in other areas, arthritis, depression, and ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs, the ...

Americans aren't getting enough sleep and it's not a secret – most know it. In a 2022 Casper-Gallup poll, only 3 in 10 American adults said they get "excellent" or "very good" sleep each night; and a ...

Odds are very high that at some point in your life, you will experience lower back pain. In fact, it is estimated that approximately one in four Americans are experiencing lower back pain right now.