Low back pain: a call for action
One article on PainSci cites Buchbinder 2018: The Complete Guide to Low Back Pain
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Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exist, the effects will probably be more extreme in these regions. Most low back pain is unrelated to specific identifiable spinal abnormalities, and our Viewpoint, the third paper in this Lancet Series,2,3 is a call for action on this global problem of low back pain.
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- “Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions,” Foster, Nadine E and Anema, Johannes R and Cherkin, Dan and Chou, Roger and Cohen, Steven P and Gross, Douglas P and Ferreira, Paulo H and Fritz, Julie M and Koes, Bart W and Peul, Wilco and Turner, Judith A and Maher, Chris G and {Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group}, Lancet, 2018.
- “What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention,” Hartvigsen, Jan and Hancock, Mark J and Kongsted, Alice and Louw, Quinette and Ferreira, Manuela L and Genevay, Stéphane and Hoy, Damian and Karppinen, Jaro and Pransky, Glenn and Sieper, Joachim and Smeets, Rob J and Underwood, Martin and {Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group}, Lancet, 2018.
- “Whole of community pain education for back pain. Why does first-line care get almost no attention and what exactly are we waiting for?,” G Lorimer Moseley, British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018.
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