abstract   background: low back pain (lbp) is still a medical problem in 21 st century. having back pain and being disabled by it are not the same thing. it is common to come across with patients who have simple back pain but surprisingly totally disabled and vice versa. in clinical practice, it is important to have a proper evaluation of disability and making a clear distinction between pain a...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the level of disability and pain intensity among two groups of governmental employees and sellers who suffering from chronic low back pain.  material and methods: this descriptive – analytic study was performed from dec 2015to mar 2016among employed staff members of education ministry (n=50) and 40 sellers with chronic low back pain who were sel...

objectives: altered movement strategy and postural control has been observed in low back pain (lbp) patients. objective of this study was to determine postural response following support surface translation, also correlations between postural response related measures and disability caused by lbp. methods: 20 healthy subjects and 20 patients with recurrent non specific lbp participated in this ...

aim and background: there is a relation between patients' levels of physical functioning and their acceptance of chronic pain. however, this relation has not been examined amongst iranian chronic pain patients. the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the relation between acceptance of chronic pain and physical disability. methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlational study, convenienc...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain in older adults is common. It is hypothesised that coping strategies may be predictive of pain intensity and pain-related disability at six months after initial consultation in primary care. METHOD Consecutive patients aged fifty years and over with musculoskeletal pain were recruited from general practice consultations. A self-completion postal questionnaire w...

  Abstract   Background: Low Back Pain (LBP) is still a medical problem in 21 st century. Having back pain and being   disabled by it are not the same thing. It is common to come across with patients who have simple back pain but surprisingly totally disabled and vice versa. In clinical practice, it is important to have a proper evaluation of disability and making a clear distinction between pa...

introduction: william's flexion exercise is recommended for any kind of non-specific low back pain. however, no clinical trial study has yet determined its effect. this study examines the effect of william's flexion exercise on pain intensity and disability in patient s with chronic non-specific and referral low back pain. materials and methods: this clinical t rial study included 32 patients w...

This study was conducted in order to determine the relationship among fear-avoidance beliefs, pain and disability index in patients with low back pain as well as to identify factors having an influence on fear-avoidance beliefs, pain and disability index. The subjects used in this study were 55 patients with low back pain. All subjects completed a fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire (FABQ) whi...