Intervention for low back pain: What does the evidence tell us?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-19

  Sibell, David M ^a   Fleisch, Juergen M ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISKITIS; DISKOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFECTION; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MENINGITIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SPINAL PAIN; STROKE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; STEROIDS;

EID: 33846514015     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-007-0016-8     Document Type: Review

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