Exercise therapy for chronic nonspecific low-back pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 193-204

  van Middelkoop, Marienke ^a   Rubinstein, Sidney M ^b   Verhagen, Arianne P ^a   Ostelo, Raymond W ^b,c   Koes, Bart W ^a   van Tulder, Maurits W ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

back pain; effectiveness; interventions; overview; prevention

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ANALGESIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LONG TERM CARE; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949310334     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2010.01.002     Document Type: Review

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