Articles: low-back-pain.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Evidence-Based Pain Management and Palliative Care in Issue Three for 2007 of The Cochrane Library.
The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. Issue 3 2007 contains 3197 complete reviews, 1744 protocols for reviews in production and 6312 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. ⋯ The health technology assessment database contains 6817 citations. This edition of the Library contains 103 new reviews of which 11 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
One-year follow-up comparison of the effectiveness of McKenzie treatment and strengthening training for patients with chronic low back pain: outcome and prognostic factors.
A randomized controlled trial with multivariable analyses of prognostic factors. ⋯ Poor long-term outcome of exercise therapy for chronic low back pain can be explained by a number of patient-related factors. Different prognostic factors were associated with different outcomes. These factors were more important in determining outcome than the exercise-programs studied.
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Comparative Study
From chronic low back pain to disability, a multifactorial mediated pathway: the InCHIANTI study.
Clinicoepidemiologic study in the Chianti area (Tuscany, Italy). ⋯ The cross-sectional association between LBP and self-reported disability, in specific tasks is modulated by performance measures. Specific performance-based tests that explore the functional consequences of LBP may help design specific interventions of disability prevention and treatment in patients with LBP.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study
The effects of lifestyle intervention for hypertension on low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
Randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention aimed to reduce hypertension is not effective at reducing prevalence of low back pain or disability. However, in the subgroup of persons doing moderate or heavy work, the intervention seemed to reduce prevalence of low back pain during the 1-year follow-up.