{"id":464,"date":"2013-10-16T23:59:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T03:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=464"},"modified":"2013-10-16T23:59:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T03:59:52","slug":"worsening-trends-in-the-management-and-treatment-of-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Worsening Trends in the Management and Treatment of Back Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMA published an article emphasizing our EM textbooks highlights regarding the simple treatment of MSK back pain are NSAIDS and Acetaminophen and then muscle relaxant.\u00a0 <!--more-->Unfortunately, rate of prescribing narcotics is increasing and rate of prescribing NSAIDS and Acetaminophen decreased.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Worsening Trends in the Management and Treatment of Back Pain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"scm6MainContent_dvAuthorSection\">John N.\u00a0Mafi,\u00a0MD<sup id=\"scm6MainContent_rptAuthors_supAuthorAffiliations_0\">1<\/sup>; Ellen P. McCarthy, PhD, MPH<sup id=\"scm6MainContent_rptAuthors_supAuthorAffiliations_1\">1<\/sup>; Roger B.\u00a0Davis,\u00a0ScD<sup id=\"scm6MainContent_rptAuthors_supAuthorAffiliations_2\">1<\/sup>; Bruce E. Landon, MD, MBA, MSc<sup id=\"scm6MainContent_rptAuthors_supAuthorAffiliations_3\">1,2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><i>JAMA Intern Med. <\/i>2013;173(17):1573-1581. doi:10.1001\/jamainternmed.2013.8992.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archinte.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?articleid=1722522\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMA published an article emphasizing our EM textbooks highlights regarding the simple treatment of MSK back pain are NSAIDS and Acetaminophen and then muscle relaxant.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthopedics","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}