Low back pain is the leading cause for years lived in disability. Most people with acute low
back pain improve rapidly, but 4% to 25% of patients become chronic. Since the previous …

Many clinical practice guidelines recommend similar approaches for the assessment and
management of low back pain. Recommendations include use of a biopsychosocial …

Non-specific low back pain affects people of all ages and is a leading contributor to disease
burden worldwide. Management guidelines endorse triage to identify the rare cases of low …

Background & aims Musculoskeletal pain, the most common cause of disability globally, is
most frequently managed in primary care. People with musculoskeletal pain in different body …

Objective To assess the long term effects of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation
for patients with chronic low back pain. Design Systematic review and random effects meta …

The psychosocial and functional consequences of chronic pain disorders have been well
documented as having significant effects on the experience of pain, presentation to health …

Background Low back pain (LBP) is responsible for considerable personal suffering
worldwide. Those with persistent disabling symptoms also contribute to substantial costs to …

Questions How commonly and how quickly does low back pain reoccur in a cohort of people
who have recently recovered from an episode of low back pain? What are the prognostic …

Introduction Patient education is a relatively new science within the field of health care. In
the past it consisted mainly of the transfer of knowledge and mostly biomedically based …

Neck pain is the fourth leading cause of disability. 1 Adult population (ages 15–74 years)
shows a point prevalence ranging from 5.9% 2 to 38.7%. 3 The 1-year prevalence of neck …