Nonoperative management of low back pain and lumbar disc degeneration

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1810-1818

  Brodke, Darrel S ^a   Ritter, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; STEROID;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BED REST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISKOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; DORSAL ROOT; DROWSINESS; DRUG TOLERANCE; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTOXICATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MYELOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOTICS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 3543018506     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200408000-00028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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