Cymbalta May Cut Chronic Low Back Pain

kavin submitted, created time 3 months 12 hours (www.webmd.com)

Cymbalta, a prescription drug used to treat depression, generalized anxiety disorder, diabetic nerve pain, and fibromyalgia, may ease chronic low back pain.

That's according to a study presented in Madrid at the twelfth congress of the European Federation of the Neurological Sciences.

The study included 236 adults with chronic low back pain who weren't depressed. They took Cymbalta or a placebo drug daily for thirteen weeks.

Average weekly pain scores, measured before taking Cymbalta or the placebo and again at the end of the study, showed greater improvement in the Cymbalta group

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Maybe Gene helps predict if antidepressant will work

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U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, scientists have found a second gene that helps predict whether people with depression will respond to a commonly prescribed antidepressant.

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