Articles: low-back-pain.
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Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
Reliability of physical examination items used for classification of patients with low back pain.
The purpose of this study was to examine the interrater reliability of measurements obtained by examiners administering tests proposed to be important for classifying low back pain (LBP) problems. ⋯ The results suggest that experienced therapist who had trained together were able to agree on the results of examinations and obtain an acceptable level of reliability. Future work should focus on testing of reliability when more than one therapist performs the examination and when therapist not trained by the test developer to administer the examination perform the tests. [Van Dillen LR, Sahrmann SA, Norton BJ, et al. Reliability of physical examination items used for classification of patients with low back pain.
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Scand J Rehabil Med · Sep 1998
Comparative StudySubacute and chronic low back pain. Reliability and validity of a Swedish version of the Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire.
The purpose of this study was to investigate test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of a Swedish version of the Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire (RM-Sw), and to describe demographic factors in patients with low back pain of at least 4 weeks' duration seeking outpatient physical therapy treatment in primary care settings. Seventy-two patients participated in the study. ⋯ Gender, education and occupation were only moderately related to RM-Sw scores, explaining 14% of the variance in the scores. It is concluded that RM-Sw is a reliable and valid measure of functional ability in low back pain.
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Population-based, cross-sectional, mailed survey. ⋯ Low-intensity/low-disability low back pain is a common problem in the general population. Approximately 11% of the adult population studied had been disabled by low back pain in the previous 6 months.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Can it be predicted which patients with chronic low back pain should be offered tertiary rehabilitation in a functional restoration program? A search for demographic, socioeconomic, and physical predictors.
A prospective clinical trial was conducted that involved six groups of patients with chronic low back pain selected from a large cohort (N = 816). ⋯ Different factors can be identified as predictive of outcome in a functional restoration program, but most of these factors were also shown to predict success for shorter control outpatient programs or of no treatment.