Christine Lin
@DrChristineLin
Professor | University of Sydney | Sydney Musculoskeletal Health | Institute for Musculoskeletal Health | Musculoskeletal and pain researcher
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Co-Director, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health; Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney.
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Thank you Norman Swan for the interview on our opioids for acute spinal pain study doi.org/10.1016/S0140-………
No difference in recovery from pain between opioid and placebo groups and from Days 1-7 (red = opioid group, blue = placebo).
Results of a world-first trial comparing a short course of opioids to placebo for acute back & neck pain calls for change to treatment guidelines.
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#OPALtrial was funded by NHMRC Sydney Health and SafeWork SA. Thank you 👍
doi.org/10.1016/S0140-…
#OPALtrial shows #opioids not effective for acute low back pain and neck pain
Published in The Lancet
doi.org/10.1016/S0140-…
Opioids don't relieve acute low back or neck pain – and can result in worse pain, new study finds theconversation.com/opioids-dont-r… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Prof Christine Lin quoted in CNN on the #OPALtrial published today in The Lancet
cnn.com/2023/06/28/hea…
Thanks Bethan Richards, Dr Chris Needs and the crew at Sydney Local Health District, for helping the #OPALtrial recruit patients and implementing the evidence into practice.
Summary - #opioids not effective in acute low back pain and neck pain. Fulltext in The Lancet doi.org/10.1016/S0140-…
#Opioids found to NOT be effective for people with acute back and/or neck pain in the #OPALTrial published today The Lancet
Findings covered in ABC News article this morning: abc.net.au/news/2023-06-2…
Two things come to mind for me:
1) Wow, that is some result.
2) Caitlin Jones punching out a ground-breaking RCT published in Lancet DURING HER PHD!
Opioids not effective for acute #backpain and #neckpain . Congratulations Caitlin Jones Christine Lin Chris Maher and the OPAL team for this important trial 👏🏻🥳
Fulltext of #OPALtrial from The Lancet
doi.org/10.1016/S0140-……
for those who want more...
In a clever trial, Caitlin Jones and Christine Lin show slow-release opioids are no better than a placebo for acute back pain - and may be worse over the long-term.
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