INTEGRATION OF NEUROIMAGING AND BIOMECHANICS OF LOW BACK PAIN

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 每年有超过4500万美国人遭受下腰痛的折磨，医疗保健费用每年超过800亿美元。尽管需要更敏感和更好的临床治疗，但腰部运动学、功能和疼痛表现之间的客观联系目前尚不存在。这项建议旨在启动一项研究计划，以确定大脑中与腰部临床表现和生物力学相关的疼痛模式。总而言之，这项努力旨在通过了解腰痛的病因来改善对那些遭受下腰痛的人的临床评估和管理。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Low back pain afflicts over 45 million Americans each year with health care costs exceeding $80 billion annually. Objective links between low back kinematics, function, and pain expression do not currently exist in spite of the need for more sensitive and improved clinical management. This proposal aims to initiate a program of research to identify pain patterns in the brain associated with low back clinical presentation and biomechanics. Altogether, this effort aspires to improve clinical assessment and management of those suffering from low back pain by understanding the etiology of that pain.