Background No previous systematic review has quantitatively examined the association
between muscular fitness during childhood and adolescence and health parameters later in …

BACKGROUND: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration remains a clinically important
condition for which treatment is costly and relatively ineffective. The molecular basis of …

Background Non-specific low back pain (LBP) is often categorised as acute, subacute or
chronic by focusing on the duration of the current episode. However, more than twenty years …

Study Design. Retrospective analysis of an insurance claims database. Objective. To
examine the comorbidities, treatment patterns, health care resource utilization, and direct …

Although the literature is filled with information about the prevalence and incidence of back
pain in general, there is less information about chronic back pain, partly because of a lack of …

Recommendation 1: Clinicians should conduct a focused history and physical examination
to help place patients with low back pain into 1 of 3 broad categories: nonspecific low back …

Abstract Background Context Modic changes (MC) are bone marrow lesions on magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), suggestive of being associated with low back pain (LBP). Data on …

Numerous factors put patients at risk for the development of chronic back pain, including
age, educational status, psychosocial factors, occupational factors, and obesity. Evaluation …

Context Low back pain is extremely common. Early identification of patients more likely to
develop persistent disabling symptoms could help guide decisions regarding follow-up and …

Background context Great effort has been made toward limiting low back pain (LBP). Recent
focus has included factors involved with secondary and tertiary prevention, with less …