Abstracts tagged "glucosamine and low back pain"

Abstract Number: 2113 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Glucosamine–Chondroitin Sulfate Reduces Pain, Disability and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug consumption In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Large, Community-Based, Pilot, Open Prospective Study
Gurkirpal Singh^1,2, Liudmila Alekseeva³, Valeriy Alekseev⁴ and Evgeny Nasonov⁵, ¹ICORE, Woodside, CA, ²Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, ³State Institute of Rheumatology of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ⁴Department of Nervous Diseases, First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia, ⁵State NII of Rheumatology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Background/Purpose: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 identified low back pain as the leading cause of Years Lived with Disability…