One study showed that about 5% of patients receive prednisone for the treatment of their low back pain, but does it work.

一项研究显示约5%的患者接受强的松治疗他们的下腰背部疼痛，但它有用吗？

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Study Design. An intertester reliability study of the questions and tests recommended in guidelines for the management of low back pain (LBP).

研究设计：对一些指南所推荐的治疗下腰痛（LBP）的临床试验和问卷调查，研究检测者之间的可信度。

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When you consider the terrible side-effects caused by even over the counter pain relievers millions of people take every day for low back pain, it seems unethical to ignore the good news of these studies just because the mechanisms for how acupuncture works baffle us.

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One of the recent NIH funded studies showed that acupuncture was twice as effective as conventional therapy for treating low back pain.

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But there is a backlash over whether the equipment is overused on patients with ordinary back pain who would do just as well with low-tech treatment.

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