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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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What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention

Jan Hartvigsen, +31 more
- 09 Jun 2018 - 
TL;DR: Intensified research efforts and global initiatives are clearly needed to address the burden of low back pain as a public health problem, where health and other systems are often fragile and not equipped to cope with this growing burden.
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Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview

Crystian B. Oliveira, +8 more
- 03 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: Some differences are identified compared to the previous overview regarding the recommendations for assessment of psychosocial factors, the use of some medications as well as an increasing amount of information regarding the types of exercise, mode of delivery, acupuncture, herbal medicines, and invasive treatments.
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Global low back pain prevalence and years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.

Ai-Min Wu, +12 more
- 13 Mar 2020 - 
TL;DR: Globally, LBP is the leading global cause of YLDs and greater attention is urgently needed to mitigate this increasing burden and the impact it is having on health and social systems.
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Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

Mary Ann Fitzcharles, +6 more
- 29 May 2021 - 
TL;DR: Nociplastic pain this paper is a third category of pain that is mechanistically distinct from nociceptive pain, which is caused by ongoing inflammation and damage of tissues, and neuropathic pain, caused by nerve damage.
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Core outcome domains for clinical trials in non-specific low back pain

Alessandro Chiarotto, +19 more
- 05 Apr 2015 - 
TL;DR: Overall consensus was reached for the inclusion of three domains in this COS: ‘physical functioning’, ‘pain intensity” and ‘health-related quality of life’ and the domain ‘number of deaths’.
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Prognosis for patients with chronic low back pain: inception cohort study

Lucíola da Cunha Menezes Costa, +6 more
- 06 Oct 2009 - 
TL;DR: The prognosis is less favourable for those who have taken previous sick leave for low back pain, have high disability levels or high pain intensity at onset of chronicity, have lower education, perceive themselves as having a high risk of persistent pain, and were born outside Australia.
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Group cognitive behavioural treatment for low-back pain in primary care: a randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis

Sarah E Lamb, +8 more
- 13 Mar 2010 - 
TL;DR: Over 1 year, the cognitive behavioural intervention had a sustained effect on troublesome subacute and chronic low-back pain at a low cost to the health-care provider.
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Prevalence of and screening for serious spinal pathology in patients presenting to primary care settings with acute low back pain.

Nicholas Henschke, +8 more
- 01 Oct 2009 - 
TL;DR: In patients presenting to a primary care provider with back pain, previously undiagnosed serious pathology is rare, indicating that, when used in isolation, red flags have little diagnostic value in the primary care setting.
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Acupuncture and dry‐needling for low back pain

Andrea D Furlan, +6 more
- 24 Jan 2005 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effects of acupuncture for the treatment of non-specific low-back pain and dry-needling for myofascial pain syndrome in the lowback region.
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Synthesis of recommendations for the assessment and management of low back pain from recent clinical practice guidelines.

Simon Dagenais, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2010 - 
TL;DR: Recommendations from several recent CPGs regarding the assessment and management of LBP were similar, and clinicians who care for patients with LBP should endeavor to adopt these recommendations to improve patient care.
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