Evaluation and treatment of acute low back pain

American Family Physician

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Kinkade, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARISOPRODOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; METAXALONE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADDICTION; BED REST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MASSAGE; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRURITUS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BED REST; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEAT; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 34247399957     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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