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Lower back pain

Personality traits have an effect on pain-related psychological variables in patients with chronic low back pain

Kazuhiro Hayashi, Kenji Miki, Yui Fukushima, Mayuu Iwai, Yukiko Shiro, Tomoko Tetsunaga, Toshifumi Takasusuki, Masako Hosoi, Masao Yukioka, Seiji Okada

published 31 Jul 2026

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Association between high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and postoperative recovery from lumbar disc herniation

Nuoman Han, Wei Chen, Shuai Zhou, Rui Chen, Guangzhao Hou, Qian Xiao, Zhenbang Yang, Shihang Liu, Yingze Zhang, Hongzhi Lv

published 24 Jul 2026

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Prediction of factors contributing to Pain Intensity among low back pain patients: A comparative machine learning frameworks (Random Forest versus XGBoost)

Maaidah M. Algamdi, Ali H. Alghamdi

published 21 Jul 2026

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Predicting ankylosing spondylitis disease activity via patient-reported outcome measures: Building prediction models based on machine learning

Yifan Gong, Aomei Liu, Li Zhuo, Xueyuan Xu, Hongxiao Liu

published 15 Jul 2026

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National and subnational burden and attributable risk factors of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and low back pain in Iran: 1990–2019 findings of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study

Mahnaz Sanjari, Hossein Yarmohammadi, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Mohammad Amin Habibi, Aida Fallahzadeh, Amir Hossein Behnoush, Shakiba Yousefi, Ali Sheikhy, Sima Noorali, Zahra Esfahani, Narges Ebrahimi, Noushin Fahimfar, Afshin Ostovar, Bagher Larijani

published 06 Jul 2026

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“Shining a light on chronic pain”: A qualitative study of stakeholder views towards chronic pain at work and the Pain-at-Work Toolkit

Angela Claire Thornton, Elaine Wainwright, Wendy J. Chaplin, Victoria Abbott-Fleming, Daniel F. McWilliams, David A. Walsh, Gordon Taylor, Paul McNamee, Karen Walker-Bone, Holly Blake

published 02 Jul 2026

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Effectiveness of shortwave diathermy in patients with chronic low back pain: A study protocol for a randomised, single-blinded, multicentre clinical trial

Mohammad Ali, Saddam Hossain, MD. Abu Bakar Siddiq, Monirul Islam

published 10 Jun 2026

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Exploration of comorbidity mechanisms between chronic pain and depression: Machine learning prediction models and SHAP interpretability analysis based on the CHARLS cohort

Tao-Ming Dai, Jie Yuan, Yue-Yang Ma, Jun-Jun Liu

published 08 Jun 2026

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Andean agriculture and hand tools: A qualitative approach of exploration of needs, barriers, and opportunities for innovation

Liliana Cruz-Ausejo, José del Carmen Abad Castillo, Claudia Cardenal, MD Zahid Hasan, Amit Bhattacharya, Jerome T. Galea

published 15 May 2026

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The effectiveness of Chuna manual therapy based on radiographic malposition diagnosis in patients with non-acute low back pain: A study protocol for a randomized, assessor-blind, parallel-group, controlled trial

JungHo Jo, Yeong Ha Jeong, Tae-Yong Park, Young Cheol Na, Jun-Su Jang, Minho Choi, Junghan Lee, Kang-san Kim, Yoonhee Kim, Seungkwan Choi, Wonbae Ha, Jin-Hyun Lee

published 11 May 2026

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Age of diagnosis with endometriosis and potential predicting factors: A single-center cross-sectional study

Soha Wahab, Zeina Chehade, Dima El Oueichak, Miguel Luna Russo, Miran A. Jaffa

published 15 Apr 2026

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Association of the 24-hour movement behaviours composition with workers’ chronic musculoskeletal pain

Aino Kitayama, Yu-Tai Liu, Ai Shibata, Sayaka Kurosawa, Koichiro Oka

published 03 Apr 2026

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Baseline associations between thoracic expansion, respiratory function, and pain in nonspecific low back pain: A cross-sectional analysis from the DIAFRAGMA trial

Francisco José Vera-Serrano, Maria Jesus Vinolo-Gil, María Rebollo-Ramos, María-José Estebanez-Pérez, José-Manuel Pastora-Bernal, Juan Antonio Díaz-Mancha

published 03 Apr 2026

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