The proportion of patients seeking assistance from a physician for low back pain who
actually have a malignant, infectious, or a rapidly progressive or potentially irreversible …

Preview A busy primary care physician might despair on seeing two or three patients on the
schedule who want help for low back pain. Complaints of such pain are numerous and so …

BACK PAIN ranks second only to upper respiratory tract complaints as a symptomatic
reason for visits to office-based physicians,~ and seventh as a reason for visits to internists, z …

Low back pain ranks second only to upper respiratory illness as a reason for office visits to
physicians. Most causes of back pain respond to symptomatic and physical measures, but …

BACK pain ranks second only to upper respiratory illness as a symptomatic reason for office
visits to physicians. 1 About 70% of adults have low back pain at some time, but only 14 …

PREVIEW When back pain does not improve over time with standard treatment measures,
there is often the fear that a serious but unrecognized underlying condition may be to blame …

Virtually everyone will experience back pain at some time in life. Although the course of back
pain is benign for most patients, it is important not to miss the few dangerous underlying …

To optimize the results of diagnostic tests, the ordering physician must include a description
of the presenting symptoms, clinical impression, and diagnosis to be ruled out. Increasingly …