Lower back pain in the athlete: Common conditions and treatment

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 201-229

  Baker, Robert J ^a,c   Patel, Dilip ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan State University Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; STEROID; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATHLETE; BACKACHE; BRACE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FOOTBALL; FRACTURE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SACROILIITIS; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCOLIOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SPORT; SYMPTOM; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 17044377185     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2004.11.004     Document Type: Review

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