Back Pain: Weinstein SM

Levy MH, Back A, Bazargan S, Benedetti C, Billings JA, Block S, Bruera E, Carducci MA, Dy S, Eberle C, Foley KM, Harris JD, Knight SJ, Milch R, Rhiner M, Slatkin NE, Spiegel D, Sutton L, Urba S, Von Roenn JH, Weinstein SM, Anonymous00320. · Fox Chase Cancer Center. · J Natl Compr Canc Netw. · Pubmed #16948956 No free full text.

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Standaert CJ, Weinstein SM, Rumpeltes J. · Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA. · Spine J. · Pubmed #18164459 No free full text.

Abstract: The management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) has proven very challenging in North America, as evidenced by its mounting socioeconomic burden. Choosing among available nonsurgical therapies can be overwhelming for many stakeholders, including patients, health providers, policy makers, and third-party payers. Although all parties share a common goal and wish to use limited health-care resources to support interventions most likely to result in clinically meaningful improvements, there is often uncertainty about the most appropriate intervention for a particular patient. To help understand and evaluate the various commonly used nonsurgical approaches to CLBP, the North American Spine Society has sponsored this special focus issue of The Spine Journal, titled Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Low Back Pain Without Surgery. Articles in this special focus issue were contributed by leading spine practitioners and researchers, who were invited to summarize the best available evidence for a particular intervention and encouraged to make this information accessible to nonexperts. Each of the articles contains five sections (description, theory, evidence of efficacy, harms, and summary) with common subheadings to facilitate comparison across the 24 different interventions profiled in this special focus issue, blending narrative and systematic review methodology as deemed appropriate by the authors. It is hoped that articles in this special focus issue will be informative and aid in decision making for the many stakeholders evaluating nonsurgical interventions for CLBP.

Weinstein SM, Walton O. · Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Suite 2100, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. · Neurosurg Clin N Am. · Pubmed #15450886 No free full text.

Abstract: Metastatic spinal disease is common in cancer patients, and it is a frequent source of pain and disability. Expert management of the patient's pain and neurologic dysfunction is required. Neurosurgical advances have afforded the patient the opportunity to have improved symptom management and improved quality-of-life outcomes. Patients and their families are best served by the provision of supportive care by specialty pain medicine and palliative care services (especially neurology based) working with the primary neurosurgical team in an integrated model.

Weinstein SM, Herring SA, Anonymous00383. · Puget Sound Sports & Spine Physicians, 1600 E. Jefferson, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98122-5467, USA. · Spine J. · Pubmed #14589216 No free full text.

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