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Non-specific low back pain

Christopher G. Maher, +3 more
- 18 Feb 2017 - 
- Vol. 389, Iss: 10070, pp 736-747
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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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Chronic low back pain: a mini-review on pharmacological management and pathophysiological insights from clinical and pre-clinical data.

Thomas S. W. Park, +2 more
- 12 May 2018 - 
TL;DR: There is a great, unmet need for research aimed at discovering new biological targets in rodent models of chronic mechanical LBP for use in drug discovery programs as a means to potentially produce new highly effective and well-tolerated analgesic agents to improve relief of chronic LBP.
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Reliability and agreement of isometric functional trunk and isolated lumbar strength assessment in healthy persons and persons with chronic nonspecific low back pain

Jonas Verbrugghe, +6 more
- 01 Jul 2019 - 
TL;DR: The Biodex 3 system can be used reliably to assess maximum isometric trunk muscle strength with the aforementioned protocols in healthy persons and persons with chronic nonspecific low back pain.
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Efficacy and Safety of Acupuncture for Chronic Discogenic Sciatica, a Randomized Controlled Sham Acupuncture Trial.

Ziling Huang, +5 more
- 01 Nov 2019 - 
TL;DR: Twelve sessions of acupuncture showed short-term clinical benefits in relieving the symptoms of leg pain for patients with chronic discogenic sciatica compared with sham acupuncture, indicating that acupuncture is safe in treating chronic Discogenic Sciatica.
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Diagnostic Clinical Prediction Rules for Specific Subtypes of Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review

Robin Haskins, +2 more
- 31 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: Validation and impact analysis of the diagnostic CPRs identified in this review are warranted, particularly for those tools that meet an identified unmet need of clinicians who manage patients with LBP.
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Influence of living environments and working status on low back pain for survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Yoshihiro Hagiwara, +11 more
- 01 Mar 2016 - 
TL;DR: Though living environment has little effect, "Decrease in income" and "The same occupation as before the earthquake" have strong influences on low back pain.
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