Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions

NE Foster, JR Anema, D Cherkin, R Chou, SP Cohen… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Many clinical practice guidelines recommend similar approaches for the assessment and
management of low back pain. Recommendations include use of a biopsychosocial …

What does best practice care for musculoskeletal pain look like? Eleven consistent recommendations from high-quality clinical practice guidelines: systematic review

I Lin, L Wiles, R Waller, R Goucke, Y Nagree… - British journal of sports …, 2020 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives To identify common recommendations for high-quality care for the most common
musculoskeletal (MSK) pain sites encountered by clinicians in emergency and primary care …

Non-specific low back pain

C Maher, M Underwood, R Buchbinder - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Non-specific low back pain affects people of all ages and is a leading contributor to disease
burden worldwide. Management guidelines endorse triage to identify the rare cases of low …

Efficacy, tolerability, and dose-dependent effects of opioid analgesics for low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

CA Shaheed, CG Maher, KA Williams… - JAMA internal …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Opioid analgesics are commonly used for low back pain, however, to our
knowledge there has been no systematic evaluation of the effect of opioid dose and use of …

Non-specific low back pain

F Balagué, AF Mannion, F Pellisé, C Cedraschi - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Non-specific low back pain has become a major public health problem worldwide. The
lifetime prevalence of low back pain is reported to be as high as 84%, and the prevalence of …

Efficacy of paracetamol for acute low-back pain: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial

CM Williams, CG Maher, J Latimer, AJ McLachlan… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Regular paracetamol is the recommended first-line analgesic for acute low-
back pain; however, no high-quality evidence supports this recommendation. We aimed to …

Diagnostic imaging for low back pain: advice for high-value health care from the American College of Physicians

R Chou, A Qaseem, DK Owens, P Shekelle… - Annals of internal …, 2011 - acpjournals.org
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
supplement. Diagnostic imaging is indicated for patients with low back pain only if they have …

Worsening trends in the management and treatment of back pain

JN Mafi, EP McCarthy, RB Davis… - JAMA internal …, 2013 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Back pain treatment is costly and frequently includes overuse of treatments that
are unsupported by clinical guidelines. Few studies have evaluated recent national trends in …

Implications of early and guideline adherent physical therapy for low back pain on utilization and costs

JD Childs, JM Fritz, SS Wu, TW Flynn… - BMC health services …, 2015 - Springer
Background Initial management decisions following a new episode of low back pain (LBP)
are thought to have profound implications for health care utilization and costs. The purpose …

CareTrack: assessing the appropriateness of health care delivery in Australia

WB Runciman, TD Hunt, NA Hannaford… - Medical Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: To determine the percentage of health care encounters at which a sample of adult
Australians received appropriate care (ie, care in line with evidence‐based or consensus …