Objective To estimate the one year prognosis and identify prognostic factors in cases of recent
onset low back pain managed in primary care. Design Cohort study with one year follow-…

Background: Although low-back pain is a highly prevalent condition, its clinical course remains
uncertain. Our main objective was to systematically review the literature on the clinical …

Objective To determine the prevalence of serious pathology in patients presenting to
primary care settings with acute low back pain, and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of …

Background Previous systematic reviews have concluded that the effectiveness of motor
control exercise for persistent low back pain has not been clearly established. Objective The …

Importance Mediation analyses of randomized trials and observational studies can generate
evidence about the mechanisms by which interventions and exposures may influence …

Objectives To describe the course of chronic low back pain in an inception cohort and to
identify prognostic markers at the onset of chronicity. Design Inception cohort study with one …

Disability is an important outcome from a clinical and public health perspective. However, it
is unclear how disability develops in people with low back pain or neck pain. More …

Background The evidence that exercise intervention is effective for treatment of chronic low
back pain comes from trials that are not placebo-controlled. Objective The purpose of this …

Background There is currently no strong consensus regarding the optimal management of
complex regional pain syndrome although a multitude of interventions have been described …

Pain self-efficacy and fear of movement have been proposed to explain how pain can lead
to disability for patients with chronic low back pain. However the extent to which pain self-…