ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2009
A clinical prediction rule for classifying patients with low back pain who demonstrate short-term improvement with mechanical lumbar traction.
Article in 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, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05794347 (Effects of Vertical Sitting Versus Supine Lying Traction on Pain, Range of Motion and Function in Patients With Chronic Radicular Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Effects of Vertical Sitting Versus Supine Lying Traction on Pain, Range of Motion and Function in Patients With Chronic Radicular Low Back Pain
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Lumbar mechanical traction: a biomechanical assessment of change at the lumbar spine.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Trial
- Prediction of pain outcomes in a randomized controlled trial of dose-response of spinal manipulation for the care of chronic low back pain.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2015Trial
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- Performance of Pain Interventionalists From Different Specialties in Treating Degenerative Disk Disease-Related Low Back Pain.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2020Article
- Developing a clinical prediction rule to identify patients with lumbar disc herniation who demonstrate short-term improvement with mechanical lumbar traction.Physical therapy research · 2019Article
- Immediate and short-term effects of mulligan concept positional sustained natural apophyseal glides on an athletic young-adult population classified with mechanical neck pain: an exploratory investigation.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2018Article
- Prevalence and reliability of treatment-based classification for subgrouping patients with low back pain.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2018Article
- Clinical Decision Support Tools for Selecting Interventions for Patients with Disabling Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Scoping Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2016Article
- Manual unloading of the lumbar spine: can it identify immediate responders to mechanical traction in a low back pain population? A study of reliability and criterion referenced predictive validity.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2016Article
- Quantitative sensory testing changes in the successful management of chronic low back pain.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2012Article
- The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the "medical" articles in the European Spine Journal, 2009.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 · 2010Review
- So Close and Yet so Far-Growth and Progress in the Accessory Motion Testing Literature.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2009Article
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Abstract
The objective of the study was to develop a clinical prediction rule for identifying patients with low back pain, who improved with mechanical lumbar traction. A prospective, cohort study was conducted in a physiotherapy clinic at a local hospital. Patients with low back pain, referred to physiotherapy were included in the study. The intervention was a standardized mechanical lumbar traction program, which comprised three sessions provided within 9 days. Patient demographic information, standard physical examination, numeric pain scale, fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire and Oswestry low back pain disability index (pre- and post-intervention) were recorded. A total of 129 patients participated in the study and 25 had positive response to the mechanical lumbar traction. A clinical prediction rule with four variables (non-involvement of manual work, low level fear-avoidance beliefs, no neurological deficit and age above 30 years) was identified. The presence of all four variables (positive likelihood ratio = 9.36) increased the probability of response rate with mechanical lumbar traction from 19.4 to 69.2%. It appears that patients with low back pain who were likely to respond to mechanical lumbar traction may be identified.
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