Health advice: lower-back pain (Daily Telegraph) Britain's leading health and wellbeing specialists answer your questions. This week: lower-back pain.

Managing back pain without costly medications: High-touch Integrative Medicine therapies may help (News-Medical-Net) A new pilot study conducted with assembly workers at the Ford Motor Company in Louisville, KY focused on acute, work-related low back pain. Results of that study indicate that high-touch Integrative Medicine (IM) therapies can help employees manage back pain without the costly medications typically associated with managing their pain.

Back pain topic of talks at Backus (The Day) Norwich - Lumbar spinal stenosis, a common condition that causes back pain, will be the topic of two talks at The William W. Backus Hospital, at 6 p.m. Monday and March 24, in the hospital's entry

Qualls springing back after injury (Arizona Daily Star) Arizona Diamondbacks closer Chad Qualls remembers the sound. It mimicked a back cracking and bones crunching. He felt no pain, but experienced pressure in his left knee as his body twisted.

Ellis' back pain began in high school (San Francisco Chronicle) Guard Monta Ellis revealed Wednesday that he was born with a small hole at the base of his spine, a condition that he says started causing back pain in high school and still is a problem periodically. The Warriors said the condition is called spondylolysis, a...

Monta Ellis back pain began in high school (Inside Hoops) Rusty Simmons of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: Guard Monta Ellis revealed Wednesday that he was born with a small hole at the base of his spine, a condition that he says started causing back pain in high school and still is a problem periodically. The Warriors said the condition is called spondylolysis, a defect that occurs [...]

Kaymer putts his way into the mix at Doral (Sports Illustrated) DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- Martin Kaymer still has occasional pain in his left foot, thanks to all the hardware surgeons used to put it back together after a go-cart accident last summer.

Patients push for back pain injections (York Press) HEALTH bosses in York are again being asked to reconsider a decision to screen who is eligible for injections to relieve chronic back pain.

Teen wounded in Back of the Yards shooting (Chicago Tribune) A 17-year-old boy was shot in his leg this evening while standing on a South Side street in Chicago 's Back of the Yards neighborhood. The shooting happened about 7:15 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Wolcott Avenue, according to Chicago police.  The victim heard gunfire and felt pain in his leg when realizing he was wounded, police said. They said he was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was ...

Minimally Invasive Sports Hernia Repair May Get Athletes ‘Back in the Game' Faster (redOrbit) A new minimally invasive sports hernia repair gets athletes back in the game 3 times faster than the traditional repair, according to a new study presented March 13 at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Specialty Day in New Orleans.