What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention

The Lancet

Volumn 391, Issue 10137, 2018, Pages 2356-2367

  Hartvigsen, Jan ^a,b,n   Hancock, Mark J ^c,n   Kongsted, Alice ^a,b,n   Louw, Quinette ^d,n   Ferreira, Manuela L ^e,n   Genevay, Stéphane ^f,n   Hoy, Damian ^g,n   Karppinen, Jaro ^h,n   Pransky, Glenn ^i,n   Sieper, Joachim ^j,n   Smeets, Rob J ^k,l,n   Underwood, Martin ^m,n   Buchbinder, Rachelle ⁿ   Cherkin, Dan ⁿ   Foster, Nadine E ⁿ   Maher, Chris G ⁿ   van Tulder, Maurits ⁿ   Anema, Johannes R ⁿ   Chou, Roger ⁿ   Cohen, Stephen P ⁿ   Menezes Costa, Lucíola ⁿ   Croft, Peter ⁿ   Ferreira, Paulo H ⁿ   Fritz, Julie M ⁿ   Gross, Douglas P ⁿ   Koes, Bart W ⁿ   Öberg, Birgitta ⁿ   Peul, Wilco C ⁿ   Schoene, Mark ⁿ   Turner, Judith A ⁿ   Woolf, Anthony ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORDIC INSTITUTE OF CHIROPRACTIC AND CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS   (Denmark)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^k MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l Libra Rehabilitation and Audiology   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ NONE

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISABILITY; DISEASE BURDEN; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; LUMBAR SPINAL STENOSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; NOCICEPTION; OBESITY; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADICULAR PAIN; RADICULOPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIETY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; WORK DISABILITY; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COMPLICATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 85044117669     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30480-X     Document Type: Review

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