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Non-specific low back pain

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Two treatment strategies are currently used, a stepped approach beginning with more simple care that is progressed if the patient does not respond, and the use of simple risk prediction methods to individualise the amount and type of care provided.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2017-02-18. It has received 1687 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Low back pain & Disease burden.

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Risk Factors for Back Pain among Southern Brazilian School Children: A 6-Year Prospective Cohort Study

TL;DR: The risk factors associated with back pain were spending more than six hours daily watching television, lifting objects from the ground adopting an inadequate posture, using another backpack type different from those with two straps, and carrying a backpack in an asymmetric way.

Correction of leg-length discrepancy among meat cutters with low back pain: a randomized controlled trial

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the effect of insoles with leg-length discrepancy correction compared to insoles without LLD correction among meat cutters in a randomized controlled study (RCT) design.
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Back Pain in Children and Adolescents.

TL;DR: The article reviews the epidemiology, basic anatomy, and important elements of a history and examination, which should be considered when a child presents complaining of back pain, and a common differential diagnosis with evaluation and management is given.
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[Low back pain: possibilities of pathogenetic treatment].

TL;DR: The inflammatory mechanisms of LBP will be discussed with special focus on interactions between inflammatory mediators and IVD biomechanics, and TNF-α inhibitors as a potential target of therapeutic interventions in prevention of neuronal damage and neuroprotection in LBP is discussed.
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Lumbar Axial Rotation Kinematics in an Upright Sitting and With Forward Bending Positions in Men With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain.

TL;DR: The kinematic parameters of lumbar rotation were reduced in men with NSCLBP compared with controls both in an UP-sitting and FFB-s sitting and no correlations were found in the VAS levels.
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TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as mentioned in this paper, the authors estimated the quantities for acute and chronic diseases and injuries for 188 countries between 1990 and 2013.
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CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016

TL;DR: This guideline is intended to improve communication about benefits and risks of opioids for chronic pain, improve safety and effectiveness of pain treatment, and reduce risks associated with long-term opioid therapy.
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CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain - United States, 2016.

TL;DR: This guideline is intended to improve communication between clinicians and patients about the risks and benefits of opioid therapy for chronic pain, improve the safety and effectiveness of pain treatment, and reduce the risks associated with long-term opioid therapy, including opioid use disorder, overdose, and death.
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Grading the severity of chronic pain.

TL;DR: A Guttman scale analysis showed that pain intensity and disability measures formed a reliable hierarchical scale and may be useful when a brief ordinal measure of global pain severity is required.
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