Four-year follow-up of surgical versus non-surgical therapy for chronic low back pain

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1643-1648

  Brox, Jens Ivar ^a   Nygaard, Øystein P ^b   Holm, Inger ^a   Keller, Anne ^c   Ingebrigtsen, Tor ^d   Reikerås, Olav ^e  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINE SURGERY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956020516     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2009.108902     Document Type: Article

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