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Evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain with lumbar extensor strengthening exercises
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The management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) has proven very challenging in North America, as evidenced by its mounting socioeconomic burden. Choosing among available nonsurgical therapies can be overwhelming for many stakeholders, including patients, health providers, policy makers, and third-party payers. Although all parties share a common goal and wish to use limited health-care resources to support interventions most likely to result in clinically meaningful improvements, there is often uncertainty about the most appropriate intervention for a particular patient. To help understand and evaluate the various commonly used nonsurgical approaches to CLBP, the North American Spine Society has sponsored this special focus issue of to The Spine Journal, titled Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Low Back Pain Without Surgery. Articles in this supplement were contributed by leading spine practitioners and researchers, who were invited to summarize the best available evidence for a particular intervention and encouraged to make this information accessible to nonexperts. Each of the articles contains five sections (description, theory, evidence of efficacy, harms, and summary) with common subheadings to facilitate comparison across the 24 different interventions profiled in this special focus issue, blending narrative and systematic review methodology as deemed appropriate by the authors. It is hoped that articles in this special focus issue will be informative and aid in decision making for the many stakeholders evaluating nonsurgical interventions for CLBP.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mayer, J., Mooney, V., & Dagenais, S.
- Affiliations
- University of South Florida (US)
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Mayer, John
- Venue
- The Spine Journal
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 96-113
- ISSN
- 1529-9430 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2104441498
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 67
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- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Spine Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Obstetrics and Gynecology › Pregnancy-related medical research
- Keywords
- chronic low back pain, non-surgical interventions, exercise therapy, healthcare resource allocation, North American Spine Society
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Exercise Therapy, Humans, Lumbar Vertebrae, Low Back Pain, Evidence-Based Medicine, Physical Therapy Modalities
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