Muscle relaxants are typically used to treat acute muscle problems, though they are sometimes incorporated into the treatment of chronic pain conditions that involve painful muscle spasms. <p ...

TOPLINE: The long-term use of muscle relaxants may benefit patients with painful spasms or cramps and neck pain, according to a systematic review of clinical studies, but they do not appear to be ...

What are muscle relaxers? Muscle relaxers, or muscle relaxants, are prescription medications that affect one's muscle function and are used to treat musculoskeletal pain and muscle spasms.

Long-term use of skeletal muscle relaxants may be beneficial only for the treatment of a narrow subset of chronic pain conditions, according to the findings of a systematic review published in ...

Taking muscle relaxants might provide short-term relief but these won’t resolve the problem and thus, pain might reoccur. Also, taking them regularly would affect your health system negatively.

Muscle relaxant drugs are largely ineffective for low back pain, despite being widely prescribed for this condition, suggests an analysis of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today.

NERVOUS SYSTEM HEALTH Muscle relaxants, opioids offer no benefit for low back pain By Reuters Published October 20, 2015 11:31am EDT | Updated October 20, 2015 3:37pm EDT Flipboard ...

To investigate the effect of magnesium sulfate and its interaction with the non-depolarizing muscle relaxant vecuronium at adult muscle-type acetylcholine receptors in vitro. Adult muscle-type ...

To investigate the changing resistance to nondepolarizing muscle relaxants (NDMRs) during the first month after denervation. The denervated and innervated skeletal muscle cells were examined on ...

Muscle relaxants are a necessary part of anesthesia during certain major operations. Studies have, however, hinted at respiratory risks connected with these drugs. POPULAR, a major prospective ...

In the skeletal muscle relaxants-exposed patients (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.87, 95% CI 0.81-0.94) at one year the mortality was significantly lower, however risk of emergency care (AOR 2.25, 95 ...