Low back pain: a call for action
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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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BackgroundPulling, B. W., Braithwaite, F. A., Moseley, G. L., Jensen, M. P., Burke, A. L. J., Collins, K. L., Hull, M. J., Jones, H. G., Cyna, A. M., Ferencz, N., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis · doi:10.1080/00207144.2022.2105147 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Buchbinder, R., van Tulder, M., Öberg, B., Costa, L. M., Woolf, A., Schoene, M., Croft, P., Buchbinder, R., Hartvigsen, J., Cherkin, D., Foster, N. E., Maher, C. G., Underwood, M., van Tulder, M., Anema, J. R., Chou, R., Cohen, S. P., Menezes Costa, L., Croft, P., Ferreira, M., Ferreira, P. H., Fritz, J. M., Genevay, S., Gross, D. P., Hancock, M. J., Hoy, D., Karppinen, J., Koes, B. W., Kongsted, A., Louw, Q., Öberg, B., Peul, W. C., Pransky, G., Schoene, M., Sieper, J., Smeets, R. J., Turner, J. A., & Woolf, A.
- ORCID
- Hartvigsen, Jan
- Cherkin, Dan
- Foster, Nadine E
- Underwood, Martin
- Anema, Johannes R
- Chou, Roger
- Ferreira, Manuela
- Ferreira, Paulo H
- Fritz, Julie M
- Genevay, Stéphane
- Gross, Douglas P
- Hancock, Mark J
- Karppinen, Jaro
- Koes, Bart W
- Kongsted, Alice
- Louw, Quinette
- Peul, Wilco C
- Pransky, Glenn
- Sieper, Joachim
- Smeets, Rob J
- Turner, Judith A
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-06
- Volume
- 391
- Issue
- 10137
- Pages
- 2384-2388
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2790989829
- Cited by
- 1,242
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 102 · 2025: 128 · 2024: 186 · 2023: 201 · 2022: 155 · 2021: 164 · 2020: 139 · 2019: 109 · 2018: 54
- FWCI
- 75.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The Lancet (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion)
- Keele Research Repository (Keele University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion)
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- VU Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0512-10103, NF-SI-0616-10043, NF-SI-0515-10095, NIHR-RP-011-015)
- Medical Research Council
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pathology and Forensic Medicine › Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Pregnancy-related medical research
- Keywords
- low back pain, disability burden, global health, population aging, low- and middle-income countries, spinal anomalies, health policy
- MeSH terms
- Self-Management, Awareness, Delivery of Health Care, Efficiency, Humans, Income, Life Style, Obesity, Global Health, Exercise, Treatment Outcome, Low Back Pain, Cost of Illness, Sick Leave, Pain Management
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