Neuromuscular disease

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• Therapeutics:

  Caudal epidural steroid injections no better than saline epidurals or sham injections for the treatment of chronic lumbar radiculopathy

  • Bradley Kenneth Weiner,
  • Joseph Fernandez-Moure

  Evid. Based Med.  2011;  doi:10.1136/ebmed-2011-100318
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• Therapeutics:

  High-quality evidence that spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain has a small, short-term greater effect on pain and functional status compared with other interventions

  • Gert Bronfort

  Evid. Based Med.  2011;  doi:10.1136/ebm.2011.100212
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• Therapeutics:

  Corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia is helpful in the short term, but harmful in the longer term; data for non-corticosteroid injections and other tendinopathies are limited

  • John Orchard

  Evid. Based Med.  2011;16:116-117  doi:10.1136/ebm1202
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• Therapeutics:

  Moderate quality evidence that compared to advice to rest in bed, advice to remain active provides small improvements in pain and functional status in people with acute low back pain

  • Bart Koes

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:171-172  doi:10.1136/ebm1132
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• Prognosis:

  Statin use associated with increased risk of cataract, myopathy, liver dysfunction and acute renal failure with varying numbers needed to harm

  • Joanne Foody

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:187-188  doi:10.1136/ebm1103
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• Therapeutics:

  People with lumbar disc herniation and associated radiculopathy benefit more from microdiscectomy than advice in the short term, although there is no difference in the long term

  • Scott D Daffner

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:139-140  doi:10.1136/ebm1109
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• Therapeutics:

  Benzodiazepines provide no additional benefit over physiotherapy and analgesia in acute lumbar disc prolapse

  • Antonio Memeo,
  • Leopoldo Pedretti

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:148-149  doi:10.1136/ebm1126
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• Therapeutics:

  A single botulinum toxin injection at a precise anatomic point on the forearm reduces pain at rest, compared to placebo injection in patients with chronic refractory lateral epicondylitis

  • Bill Vicenzino,
  • Brooke K Coombes

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:149-150  doi:10.1136/ebm1115
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• Therapeutics:

  Intermittent preventive treatment of infants with mefloquine reduces risk of clinical malaria in areas of moderate malaria transmission and high resistance to sulphadoxine–pyrimethamine, but safety and tolerability issues need consideration

  • Rose McGready

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:71-72  doi:10.1136/ebm1039
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• Therapeutics:

  Rosuvastatin is similarly effective for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women as in men

  • Andrew Leventhal,
  • Erin D Michos

  Evid. Based Med.  2010;15:74-75  doi:10.1136/ebm1070
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