Acute lumbar disk pain: Navigating evaluation and treatment choices

American Family Physician

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gregory, David S ^a   Seto, Craig K ^a   Wortley, George C ^a   Shugart, Christine M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ACHILLES REFLEX; ANAMNESIS; ARTHROPATHY; BURSITIS; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CHEMONUCLEOLYSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MERALGIA PARESTHETICA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONSURGICAL INVASIVE THERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REVIEW; SACROILIITIS; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 56149127225     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 0002838X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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