Prevention of low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Steffens, CG Maher, LSM Pereira… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Existing guidelines and systematic reviews lack clear recommendations for
prevention of low back pain (LBP). Objective To investigate the effectiveness of interventions for …

Meta-analysis: exercise therapy for nonspecific low back pain

JA Hayden, MW Van Tulder… - Annals of internal …, 2005 - acpjournals.org
… trials), and chronic (43 trials) low back pain (1 trial was unclear). Evidence suggests that
exercise therapy is effective in chronic back pain relative to comparisons at all follow-up periods. …

Imaging strategies for low-back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis

R Chou, R Fu, JA Carrino, RA Deyo - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
… Lumbar imaging for low-back pain without indications of serious underlying conditions does
… or subacute low-back pain and without features suggesting a serious underlying condition. …

Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain.

BM Hoffman, RK Papas, DK Chatkoff… - Health …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
… The purpose of this meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials was to evaluate the …
chronic low back pain (CLBP). The authors updated and expanded upon prior meta-analyses by …

The prognosis of acute and persistent low-back pain: a meta-analysis

LCM Costa, CG Maher, MJ Hancock, JH McAuley… - Cmaj, 2012 - Can Med Assoc
back pain as pain or discomfort localized below the costal margins and above the inferior
gluteal folds, with or without leg pain… low-back pain cohorts or persistent low-back pain cohorts. …

The association between obesity and low back pain: a meta-analysis

R Shiri, J Karppinen, P Leino-Arjas… - American journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… This meta-analysis assessed the association between overweight/obesity and low back
pain. … Ninety-five studies were reviewed and 33 included in the meta-analyses. In cross-sectional …

Exercise interventions for the treatment of chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

A Searle, M Spink, A Ho, V Chuter - Clinical rehabilitation, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… of chronic low back pain is pain and discomfort, … leg pain that has been present for three
months or longer. Non-specific chronic low back pain is further defined as chronic low back pain

Meta-analysis: acupuncture for low back pain

E Manheimer, A White, B Berman, K Forys… - Annals of internal …, 2005 - acpjournals.org
… of Studies Not Combined in Meta-Analysis Table 4 gives the characteristics of the 22 RCTs
of Chinese acupuncture for chronic low back pain that we included in the meta-analyses. (…

A systematic review and meta-analysis of yoga for low back pain

H Cramer, R Lauche, H Haller… - … Clinical journal of pain, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… Results were also in line with a recent meta-analysis on yoga for pain. This meta-analysis
found evidence for effects of yoga on pain and pain-specific disability. Although this study did …

The association between smoking and low back pain: a meta-analysis

R Shiri, J Karppinen, P Leino-Arjas, S Solovieva… - The American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
… low back pain outcomes suggested by the Meta-Analysis of Pain in the Lower Back and …
prevalence of chronic low back pain and higher incidence of low back pain than female former …