SynthesisThe spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain with functional restoration.
Synthesis in The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does rehabilitation improve work participation in patients with chronic spinal pain after spinal surgery: a systematic review.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The reliability of WorkWell Systems Functional Capacity Evaluation: a systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2014Pooled it
- Trial
- Randomized Trial of Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in the Community or Clinic for Low-Income Primary Care Patients.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Trial
- Nuclear magnetic resonance therapy in lumbar disc herniation with lumbar radicular syndrome: effects of the intervention on pain intensity, health-related quality of life, disease-related disability, consumption of pain medication, duration of sick leave and MRI analysis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2015Trial
- Comparative Effectiveness of Pregabalin With Duloxetine Versus Pregabalin With Amitriptyline in Chronic Low Back Pain With Radiculopathy: A Prospective Comparative Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Brain-Centered Interventions for Nociplastic Pain: From Symptom Management to Pain Resolution.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- An interdisciplinary virtual group program addressing the FINER points of chronic pain management: An exploratory analysis of functional outcomes.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025Article
- Exploring the comorbidity between personality and musculoskeletal disorders among adults: A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- An Employer-Sponsored Musculoskeletal Care Coordination Service Can Improve Clinical Outcomes and Self-Reported Productivity.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2020Article
- The Economic Utility of Clinical Psychology in the Multidisciplinary Management of Pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- A Controlled and Retrospective Study of 144 Chronic Low Back Pain Patients to Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Intensive Functional Restoration Program in France.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Article
- [Orthopedic aspects in interdisciplinary multimodal therapy of chronic back pain].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2011Review
- Functional restoration of the spine: effect of initial pain level on the performance of subjects with chronic low back pain.Pain research & managementArticle
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Abstract
The management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) has proven to be very challenging in North America, as evidenced by its mounting socioeconomic burden. Choosing amongst available nonsurgical therapies can be overwhelming for many stakeholders, including patients, health providers, policy makers, and third-party payers. Although all parties share a common goal and wish to use limited health-care resources to support interventions most likely to result in clinically meaningful improvements, there is often uncertainty about the most appropriate intervention for a particular patient. To help understand and evaluate the various commonly used nonsurgical approaches to CLBP, the North American Spine Society has sponsored this special focus issue of The Spine Journal, titled Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Low Back Pain Without Surgery. Articles in this special focus issue were contributed by leading spine practitioners and researchers, who were invited to summarize the best available evidence for a particular intervention and encouraged to make this information accessible to nonexperts. Each of the articles contains five sections (description, theory, evidence of efficacy, harms, and summary) with common subheadings to facilitate comparison across the 24 different interventions profiled in this special focus issue, blending narrative and systematic review methodology as deemed appropriate by the authors. It is hoped that articles in this special focus issue will be informative and aid in decision making for the many stakeholders evaluating nonsurgical interventions for CLBP.
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