Lumbar instrumented fusion compared with cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic back pain after previous surgery for disc herniation: A prospective randomized controlled study

Pain

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 145-155

  Brox, Jens Ivar ^a,e   Reikerås, Olav ^a   Nygaard, Øystein ^b   Sørensen, Roger ^a   Indahl, Aage ^a,e   Holm, Inger ^a   Keller, Anne ^d   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^c   Grundnes, Oliver ^d   Lange, Johan Emil ^a   Friis, Astrid ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chronic low back pain; Cognitive intervention; Exercises; Posterior lumbar instrumented fusion; Previous discectomy; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DETERMINATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPINE FUSION; SPINE SURGERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646047393     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.01.027     Document Type: Article

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