Purpose Sickle cell disease (SCD), also known as sickle cell anemia, is an inherited blood disease that can cause organ damage, stroke, and intense pain episodes.

Patients with less than 6 months of back pain were excluded to "control for the confounder that most back pain episodes typically resolve on their own in a few weeks."

Another approach is to keep a diary of your pain episodes and the causative and corrective factors surrounding them.

An exercise ball can also be used to help treat low back pain and to prevent future back pain episodes.

The flurry of pain episodes may last from a few weeks to a few months, followed by pain-free periods of months to even years.

Hydroxyurea is also used to reduce pain episodes and the need for blood transfusions in people with sickle cell anemia.

Patients with three or more pain episodes a year in the trial had 27 percent mortality compared with 17 percent of those with less frequent attacks.

As prescribed, the dosage is variable being consistent with the nature, severity and duration of the pain episode.

He or she will ask you questions about your pain, previous pain episodes, how they were treated, and whether treatment was successful.

Complete chapters cover the critical issues of physical activity reconditioning, attentional refocusing, and a non-narcotic preventive approach for acute pain episodes.