A best-evidence review of diagnostic procedures for neck and low-back pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 471-482

  Rubinstein, Sidney M ^a   van Tulder, Maurits ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

diagnosis; diagnostic procedures; low back pain; neck pain; psychosocial; red flags; review; yellow flags

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDLINE; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NEURALGIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SACROILIAC JOINT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 44349116122     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2007.12.003     Document Type: Review

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