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Article: Early response key with Botox for low back pain.(Rheumatology)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- May 15, 2005
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PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. -- Patients with low back pain who experience significant improvement in pain and function after one set of botulinum toxin type A injections are highly likely to respond to subsequent treatments, Bahman Jabbari, M.D., reported at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine.
Those who do not obtain relief within about 2 weeks of an initial series of injections are significantly less likely to respond to subsequent treatments, said Dr. Jabbari, professor of neurology at Yale University, New Haven.
A prospective study of 75 adults with chronic, refractory low back pain was undertaken by Dr. Jabbari and his associates at ...