Structured Narrative Review on Function-Oriented Spine Care for Older Adults

A 2020–2025 structured narrative review synthesizing evidence on non-pharmacological and regenerative spine care for older adults. The document, authored by Carl P. C. Chen, was uploaded to figshare on June 4, 2026, under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It proposes a tiered, function-oriented model for pain care systems.

Use Cases

• Literature review and evidence synthesis based on the structured narrative methodology described.
• Identifying promising non-pharmacological interventions like Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) and structured exercise from the reviewed evidence.
• Evaluating the potential of adjunctive modalities such as extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) and high-intensity laser therapy (HILT) for neuroimmune modulation.
• Assessing the current evidence base for regenerative interventions like ultrasound-guided mechanical needling and biologic injectables (PRP, HA, MSCs).

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific and high-impact topic: chronic spinal pain in older adults.
• Synthesizes recent evidence from a defined 2020–2025 time period.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 20.4 KB document, indicating a limited scope of primary data.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the content is a narrative review.
• The description does not specify the number of studies reviewed or the exact search methodology.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Structured narrative review and translational synthesis.

Time Range

2020–2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:48:07