Movement Pulse · Back pain
Research, news, and practitioner perspective on lower-back pain and recovery.
Among 474 adults with scoliosis, pain did not follow the curve
Being active went with about a point less pain out of ten. Most were young and it was one snapshot: nobody knows which came first.
Nov 2, 2026
Yoga, Pilates, tai chi or qigong for chronic back pain? 25 trials found no clear winner
All four eased pain by a similar margin. Tai chi topped the ranking, yet every tai chi trial was measured against people doing nothing at all.
Oct 26, 2026
239 back pain trials searched for the ideal exercise dose. More added surprisingly little
A new review names a best dose for chronic back pain, then says it can barely tell that dose apart from the others. That caveat is the real finding.
Sep 30, 2026
The exercise that made people feel best was not the one that calmed the inflammation
Fifty nine randomized trials, seven exercise methods, 3,404 adults with axial spondyloarthritis. Different methods moved different things, and one measure moved for nobody.
Sep 21, 2026
A back support helped in one trial. Then Cochrane pooled eight of them and found a gap
Cochrane went looking for evidence on lumbar supports and other assistive devices for chronic low back pain. It found eight small trials, 501 people, and not one study that recorded whether anyone fell.
Sep 5, 2026
Why the fear of moving and the confidence to move seem to pull each other along
A new analysis in Pain, drawn from a trial of 521 adults, tracks how the pieces of recovery move each other week by week.
Aug 26, 2026
A lumbar belt eased back pain in a new trial. How much people moved did not change
A multicenter trial put a soft lumbar belt against usual care for 12 weeks. The belt group improved more, and the secondary results are the interesting part.
Aug 21, 2026
Your scan says severe spinal stenosis. It did not predict who improved with exercise
A new analysis of 1,806 people in an exercise based rehabilitation program found the same magnitude of improvement whether the imaging graded their stenosis mild, moderate, or severe.
Aug 10, 2026
Back pain and exercise: what a new review says to ask
A July 2026 JAMA review calls exercise of any type first line for chronic low back pain, with no single kind proven best. Three questions for your next visit.
Jul 20, 2026
Chronic back pain and the turn toward the nervous system
A new JAMA Internal Medicine trial joins a decade of research showing chronic low back pain often responds to attention, not just mechanics.
Jul 3, 2026
What 1,300 chronic pain voices just made plain
A new national survey shows patients, frontline clinicians, and referring doctors all want the same thing for chronic pain care. The gap is in delivery, not agreement.
Jun 19, 2026Ready to start moving better?
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