Overtreating chronic back pain: time to back off?

RA Deyo, SK Mirza, JA Turner… - The Journal of the …, 2009 - Am Board Family Med
… outcomes for patients with chronic back pain. We must rethink chronic back pain at
fundamental levels. Our understanding of chronic back pain mechanisms remains rudimentary, …

Prevention and management of chronic back pain

SS Weiner, M Nordin - Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2010 - Elsevier
… Obese individuals with low back pain report poorer health and worse pain, with increasing
… patients with chronic low back pain may positively impact overall health including pain as …

Epidemiological features of chronic low-back pain

GBJ Andersson - The lancet, 1999 - thelancet.com
back pain, partly because of a lack of agreement about definition. Chronic back pain is
sometimes defined as back pain … Others define it as pain that lasts beyond the expected period of …

[HTML][HTML] Low back pain (chronic)

R Chou - BMJ clinical evidence, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… decrease chronic low back pain or improve … chronic low back pain. Individual and workplace
factors have also been reported to be associated with the transition to chronic low back pain

Chronic low back pain

DG Borenstein - Rheumatic Disease Clinics, 1996 - rheumatic.theclinics.com
back pain will be divided according to their duration at presentation. Chronic low back pain
is the focus of this article; however, a brief discussion of acute low back pain is appropriate …

Pain-related fear is more disabling than pain itself: evidence on the role of pain-related fear in chronic back pain disability

G Crombez, JWS Vlaeyen, PHTG Heuts, R Lysens - Pain, 1999 - Elsevier
… (TSK), and the Pain Anxiety … pain clinic with chronic low back pain were studied in three
independent studies aimed at (1) replicating that pain-related fear is more disabling than pain

Family consequences of chronic back pain

L Strunin, LI Boden - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
… This paper considers occupational back injuries as they are … In this study, we interviewed
people with work-related back … reduce the impact of chronic back pain on family members. …

The stigmatisation of people with chronic back pain

I Holloway, B Sofaer-Bennett… - Disability and rehabilitation, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… attending pain clinics. The purpose of the present study was to explore the experience of
chronic back pain within the everyday lives of patients, up to the point of seeking help from pain

Chronic back pain and major depression in the general Canadian population

SR Currie, JL Wang - Pain, 2004 - Elsevier
chronic back pain compared to persons with no pain and to examine the impact of demographic
… and other relevant factors in predicting depression in persons with chronic back pain. …

The relationship between activity and chronic back pain

SJ Linton - Pain, 1985 - Elsevier
… and pain in chronic back pain patients. The basic goal was to look at correlations
between pain level and a variety of measures of activity which span the range from ‘saying/reporting’ …