Articles: low-back-pain.
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J Manipulative Physiol Ther · May 2005
The Bournemouth Questionnaire: can it be used to monitor and predict treatment outcome in chiropractic patients with persistent low back pain?
To investigate the Bournemouth Questionnaire (BQ) as a baseline, monitoring of progress, and prognostic instrument in chiropractic patients with persistent low back pain (LBP). ⋯ The BQ is not a useful instrument to identify baseline status, monitor progress, or predict the 1-year progress in chiropractic patients having persistent LBP. However, certain individual items are useful to predict specific outcomes.
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Cross-sectional analysis of analgesic use by patients with low back pain (LBP). ⋯ With this health plan, a high proportion of patients with LBP had claims for opioids during 2001. The use of opioids by patients with LBP represents a major cost for the health plan, and is associated with specific patient characteristics and their use of other LBP services.
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A prospective, interventional case series design. ⋯ In a sample of people from a Middle Eastern culture undergoing exercise intervention for LBP for which they are not receiving workers' compensation, the preintervention physical activity subscale of the FABQ is predictive of negative outcome when the observed scores are > or =29. Despite significant improvements in all variables after intervention, anticipated pain remained significantly higher than reported pain during physical performance testing but did not predict outcome.
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A cross-sectional survey was conducted using face-to-face interviews. ⋯ In comparison with other developing countries, point prevalence of LBP is higher in Turkey and approximates to prevalence estimates of LBP in developed countries. Smoking may be associated with both occurrence and severity of LBP. Although piety is not associated with having LBP, religious people are more likely to have restricted activity related to LBP.