Low Back Pain
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- 1 February 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 344 (5), 363-370
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200102013440508
Abstract
About two thirds of adults suffer from low back pain at some time. Low back pain is second to upper respiratory problems as a symptom-related reason for visits to a physician.1,2 There are wide variations in care, a fact that suggests there is professional uncertainty about the optimal approach.3,4 In addition, there is evidence of excessive imaging and surgery for low back pain in the United States,58 and many experts believe the problem has been “overmedicalized.”911 In recent years, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has come to be widely used, the roles of exercise and bed rest . . .This publication has 69 references indexed in Scilit:
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