Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: What treatments are patients willing to try?

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sherman, Karen J ^a,b   Cherkin, Daniel C ^a,c   Connelly, Maureen T ^d   Erro, Janet ^a   Savetsky, Jacqueline B ^d   Davis, Roger B ^e   Eisenberg, David M ^d  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chiropractic; Low back pain; Massage; Meditation; t'ai chi

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TAI CHI; UNITED STATES;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; BOSTON; CHIROPRACTIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TAI JI; WASHINGTON;

EID: 10444279932     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-4-9     Document Type: Article

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