Chronic low back pain in a working-age adult

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 707-720

  Diamond, Shari ^a   Borenstein, David ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic low back pain; guidelines; mechanical low back pain; osteoarthritis; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DIFLUNISAL; GLUCOCORTICOID; MAPROTILINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PIROXICAM; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY; BED REST; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BIOMECHANICS; CHRONIC PAIN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JOB SATISFACTION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KINESIOTHERAPY; KNEE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASSAGE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OPIATE ADDICTION; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PELVIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOMATIZATION; SOMNOLENCE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; TRACTION THERAPY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; URINE RETENTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; WORK RESUMPTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33748454526     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2006.04.002     Document Type: Review

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