The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of depression among low back pain (LBP) patients and to investigate the sociodemographic characteristics of pa- tients with LBP and relationship between depression and pain intensity in LBP patients. The study was conducted on 99 patients treated at Clinical Department of Neurology, Split University Hospital Center. There were 36 (36%...

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Context: Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common musculoskeletal issues facing military personnel, with a high prevalence reported in helicopter pilots. Although several risk factors (age, history of LBP, total flight-hours, total night-vision goggle flight-hours) have been previously identified, modifiable musculoskeletal characteristics have not been investigated in this population. Les...

Comparative study between 2D and 3D Local Binary Patter (LBP) methods for extraction from Computed Tomography (CT) imagery data in lung cancer diagnosis is conducted. The lung image classification is performed using probabilistic neural network (PNN) with histogram similarity as distance measure. The technique is evaluated on a set of CT lung images from Japan Society of Computer Aided Diagnosi...

UNLABELLED Many risk factors have been identified as contributing to the development or persistence of low back pain (LBP). However, the juxtaposition of both high and low levels of physical activity being associated with LBP reflects the complexity of the relationship between a risk factor and LBP. Moreover, not everyone with an identified risk factor, such as a movement pattern of increased l...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of life in Croatian homeland war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic low back pain (LBP). METHODS A total of 369 participants were included, classified in four study groups: those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD; N = 59), those with both PTSD and lower back pain (PTSD+LBP; N = 80), those ...

BACKGROUND Low back pain (LBP) is the most prevalent musculoskeletal condition and one the most common causes of disability in the developed nations. Anecdotally, there is a general assumption that LBP prevalence in Africa is comparatively lower than in developed countries. The aim of this review was to systematically appraise the published prevalence studies conducted on the African continent ...

CONTEXT Low back pain (LBP) is among the most prevalent musculoskeletal conditions in the developed countries. It is a common problem causing disability and imposing a huge economic burden to individuals and state organizations. Imaging plays an important role in diagnosis of the etiology of LBP. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION The electronic databases included: PubMed (1950 to present), Ovid SP Medline...