How long does back pain last? And how can learning about pain increase the chance of recovery?

How long does back pain last? And how can learning about pain increase the chance of recovery?

fizkes/Shutterstock By Sarah Wallwork, University of South Australia and Lorimer Moseley, University of South Australia Back pain is common. One in thirteen people have it right now and worldwide a staggering 619 million people will have it this year. Chronic pain, of which back pain is the most common, is the world’s most disabling health problem. Its economic impact dwarfs other health conditions. If you get back pain, […]

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Opinion Pieces

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

Medicine is as much about the human experience as it is about biology. Jonathan Knowles/Stone via Getty Images Irène Mathieu, University of Virginia While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine. As a published poet and scholar of the […]

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