Antibiotics useful for certain types of chronic low back pain

摘要

CERTAIN types of chronic lower back pain could be treated with antibiotics, according to researchers from Denmark who report that antibiotics successfully relieved pain in selected patients. They say that after a herniated (slipped) disc some people develop painful bone oedema in adjacent vertebrae. Bacterial infection is one suggested cause of this, with infection leading to local inflammation. Anaerobic bacteria, predominantly Propionibacterium acnes, have previously been identified in herniated discs.