Although chronic low back pain is one of the most common pain disorders, impacting millions of individuals each year, it is one of the most challenging conditions to effectively treat.
When patients visit their doctor complaining of low back pain, physical treatments like spine surgery or spinal cord stimulation are commonly prescribed. Unfortunately, these treatments are prone to high failure rates and ignore the affective and emotional components of pain.
Dr. Ausaf Bari, who serves as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and the Director of Functional Neurosurgery at UCLA, and his research team decided to explore alternative methods for low back pain treatment that focus on the brain ...