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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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Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview

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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Nociplastic pain: towards an understanding of prevalent pain conditions

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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The reliability of determining "leg dominant pain".

TL;DR: A patient's ability to identify whether his or her lumbar spine pain is leg or back dominant may be unreliable and depends on which questions are asked, and also how they are asked.
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What does ‘clinically important’ really mean?

TL;DR: Different methodologies have been proposed and developed in the attempt to determine the clinical importance of intervention, and some claim that an intervention is clinically important if its effects on a certain outcome are clearly greater than could be attributed to measurement error.
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Parenteral dipyrone versus diclofenac and placebo in patients with acute lumbago or sciatic pain: randomized observer-blind multicenter study.

TL;DR: Pain intensity showed a significantly greater reduction with dipyrone than with diclofenac or placebo between 1 and 6 hours after application (p < 0.01) and at the end of the trial (after 48 hours).
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Consensus at last! Long-term results of all randomized controlled trials show that fusion is no better than non-operative care in improving pain and disability in chronic low back pain

TL;DR: Commentary On: Hedlund R, Johansson C, Hagg O, Fritzell P, Tullberg T. The long-term outcome of lumbar fusion in the Swedish Lumbar Spine Study Group is described.
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