The treatment effect of exercise programmes for chronic low back pain

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 484-491

  Smith, Caroline ^a   Grimmer Somers, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effect size; Exercise intervention; Long term effectiveness; Low back pain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOW BACK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY SPECIALTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952901276     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01174.x     Document Type: Article

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