Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbosacral Radiculopathy: What Factors Predict Treatment Failure?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1931-1939

  Suri, Pradeep ^a,b   Carlson, M Jake ^b   Rainville, James ^c,d  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; BACK PAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICULOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SACRUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADICULOPATHY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SACRUM; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 84939874606     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-3677-8     Document Type: Article

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