Primary care clinicians use variable methods to assess acute nonspecific low back pain and usually focus on impairments

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 88-100

  Kent, Peter M ^a,b   Keating, Jennifer L ^c   Taylor, Nicholas F ^d  

^a CABRINI HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Department of Biomedical Science   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Disability evaluation; Low back pain; Primary health care; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE EXAMINATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 58149458128     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.12.006     Document Type: Article

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