Improving prediction of "inevitable" surgery during non-surgical treatment of sciatica

Pain

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 571-576

  Peul, Wilco C ^a,b   Brand, Ronald ^a   Thomeer, Ralph T W M ^a   Koes, Bart W ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Leg pain; Prolonged conservative care; Roland disability questionnaire; Sciatica; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCIATICA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50249100469     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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