By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Although it is widely used, glucosamine has no effect on chronic low back pain and degenerative lumbar osteoarthritis, researchers said.
In a large randomized double-blind trial, patients getting both glucosamine and placebo had similar changes in pain-related disability after six months of treatment and six months of follow-up, according to Philip Wilkens, MChiro, of Oslo University Hospital in Norway, and colleagues.
There was also no difference in pain itself, health-related quality of life, and the use of other medications or therapies for pain, Wilkens and colleagues said in the July 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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