Nonspecific lower-back pain: Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 443, Issue , 2006, Pages 156-167

  Nordin, Margareta ^a,d   Balagué, Federico ^b   Cedraschi, Christine ^c  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUPIRTINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TERAZEPAM; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TOLPERISONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENTEEISM; ANALGESIA; ARTHROPLASTY; BED REST; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISKOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ERGONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOOD; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SELF CARE; SPINE FUSION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

ANALGESICS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33645312146     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000198721.75976.d9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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