2023-04-20 09:31:14
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Analgesics, false friends of low back pain?
A recent meta-analysis, compiling data from 98 clinical studies involving some 15,000 patients, calls into question the efficacy and safety of painkillers commonly used to treat short-term low back pain. Products such as paracetamol, ibuprofen and codeine are widely used to treat these types of conditions, but evidence of their effectiveness is limited.
The researchers started from the premise that our knowledge of these drugs was still insufficient and assessed the efficacy and the risk associated with the use of 69 productsin particular nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, paracetamol, opioids, and muscle relaxants. This work has highlighted an uncertainty concerning the side effects of these substances, but also their effectiveness on low back pain.
Because of these remaining doubts, the authors advise professionals and patients to be cautious regarding the use of these analgesics until better knowledge is available of their efficacy and safety in the part of the symptomatic treatment of low back pain.
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