Evaluation and treatment of low back pain in family practice

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Rives, Peter A ^a,c   Douglass, Alan B ^b  

^a Pain Care Institute   (United States)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c 2350 Heartland Park ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAMNESIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOW BACK PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACK; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANALGESICS; BACK; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 21644441068     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: 15448770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.17.suppl_1.s23     Document Type: Review

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