low back pain (lbp) is a widespread musculoskeletal disorder worldwide. it causes disability that influence work performance in individuals. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of lbp in the middle-aged office workers in the lebanese population. in this observational, cross-sectional study performed in 2013, overall, 250 office workers aged between 20 and 64 ye...

low back pain (lbp) is likely the most common medical disorder among work population. in this survey, prevalence of lbp and pain severity and the association of them with occupational and non-occupational risk factors were specified among office workers in baqiyatallah university of medical sciences, tehran, iran in 2006 in this way the point prevalence of lbp and pain severity among office wor...

A variety of nonsurgical treatment alternatives exists for acute and chronic low back pain. Patients should receive appropriate education about the favorable natural history of low back pain, basic body mechanics, and methods (eg, exercises, activity modification, behavioral modification) that can reduce symptoms. Nonprescription medication is efficacious for mild to moderate pain. Nonsteroidal...

Generalized hyperalgesia has been demonstrated in cross-sectional studies in a range of chronic pain disorders, including low-back pain. It is not clear, whether the increased sensitivity to experimental pain stimuli in chronic low-back pain sufferers develops early with acute pain, later with chronification, or whether it actually represents pre-existing, high pain sensitivity in a susceptible...

BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines generally portray acute low back pain as a benign and self-limiting condition. However, evidence about the clinical course of acute low back pain is contradictory and the risk of subsequently developing chronic low back pain remains uncertain. There are few high quality prognosis studies and none that have measured pain, disability and return to work over a 12 mon...

BACKGROUND Although guidelines for the management of low back pain have been promoted, few studies have assessed their effectiveness. One previous study did not include patients with workers' compensation claims. AIM To assess the efficacy of evidence-based care for acute low back pain in patients eligible for workers' compensation. METHODS In a prospective audit, workers in a health servic...

BACKGROUND Although clinical guidelines generally portray chronic low back pain as a condition with a poor prognosis this portrayal is based on studies of potentially unrepresentative survival cohorts. The aim of this study is to describe the prognosis of an inception cohort of people with chronic low back pain presenting for primary care. METHODS/DESIGN The study will be an inception cohort ...

purpose this preliminary study aimed to determine the intrarater reliability of the quantitative tests for the study of non-specific low back pain. methods test-retest reliability of the measurements of ratio data was determined by an intraclass correlation coefficient (icc), standard error of measurements (sems), coefficient of variation (cv), and one-way repeated measures anova using the valu...

conclusions bont-a improves clbp with a low incidence of side effects and can be used as a therapeutic tool in the management of these patients. results after 4 weeks, 76% of patients in the bont-a group reported pain relief compared to 20% in the saline group (p < 0. 005). additionally, greater pain relief was experienced by patients in the bont-a group at 8 weeks (64% vs. 12%; p < 0. 001). by...