Low back pain in a natural disaster

Pain Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Angeletti, Chiara ^a   Guetti, Cristiana ^a   Ursini, Maria L ^a   Taylor, Robert ^b   Papola, Roberta ^a   Petrucci, Emiliano ^a   Ciccozzi, Alessandra ^a   Paladini, Antonella ^a   Marinangeli, Franco ^a   Pergolizzi, Joseph ^c,d   Varrassi, Giustino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b NEMA Research Inc   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute and relapsing pain; Emergency care; LBP; Low back pain; Natural disaster; NRS; Prehospital setting; Verbal numeric rating scale; vNRS

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PARACETAMOL PLUS TRAMADOL; THIOCOLCHISIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCIATIC NERVE; VERBAL NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE AND RELAPSING PAIN; EMERGENCY CARE; LBP; LOW BACK PAIN; NATURAL DISASTER; NRS; PREHOSPITAL SETTING; VERBAL NUMERIC RATING SCALE; VNRS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREVALENCE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893681811     PISSN: 15307085     EISSN: 15332500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/papr.12087     Document Type: Article

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