Diagnosis and treatment of acute low back pain

American Family Physician

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 343-350

  Casazza, Brian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARISOPRODOL; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; DIAZEPAM; METAXALONE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; STEROID; TIZANIDINE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BED REST; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE METASTASIS; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CHIROPRACTIC; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISKITIS; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FRACTURE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KIDNEY COLIC; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MUSCLE STRAIN; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADICULAR PAIN; REFERRED PAIN; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TRACTION THERAPY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 84857375133     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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