Sciatica: What the rheumatologist needs to know

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-145

  Van Tulder, Maurits ^a   Peul, Wilco ^b   Koes, Bart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CHYMOPAPAIN; CORTICOSTEROID; INFLIXIMAB; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INHIBITOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAMNESIS; ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; BED REST; BLEEDING; CHEMONUCLEOLYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG FATALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; ISCHIALGIA; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICRODISCECTOMY; MICROENDOSCOPIC DISCECTOMY; MICROSURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MUSCLE INJURY; NERVE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRACTION THERAPY; TRANSFORAMINAL ENDOSCOPIC DISCECTOMY;

ANALGESICS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; PAIN; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCIATICA; TRACTION;

EID: 77949262986     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2010.3     Document Type: Review

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