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Comparison of risk factors predicting return to work between patients with subacute and chronic non-specific low back pain: systematic review.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Absence from work and return to work in people with back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2014Pooled it
- Long-term effects on function, health-related quality of life and work ability after structured physiotherapy including a workplace intervention. A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial (WorkUp) in primary care for patients with neck and/or back pain.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2020Trial
- Research Trends and Insights in Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Bibliometric Analysis (1996-2025).Pain research & management · 2026Review
- Physiotherapeutic and non-conventional approaches in patients with chronic low-back pain: a level I Bayesian network meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Non-Specific Low Back Pain: An Inductive Exploratory Analysis through Factor Analysis and Deep Learning for Better Clustering.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review on the Epidemiology of Chronic Low Back Pain among Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Professional Status of Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome Patients after Spinal Surgery (PSPS-T2): What Really Matters? A Prospective Study Introducing the Concept of "Adapted Professional Activity" Inferred from Clinical, Psychological and Social Influence.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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- A scoping review of biopsychosocial risk factors and co-morbidities for common spinal disorders.PloS one · 2018Article
- Pain and functional outcomes after outpatient physiotherapy in patients with low back pain.Der Orthopade · 2017Article
- Supervisors' perceptions of organizational policies are associated with their likelihood to accommodate back-injured workers.Disability and rehabilitation · 2017Article
- Do expectancies of return to work and Job satisfaction predict actual return to work in workers with long lasting LBP?BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2016Article
- Supervisor Autonomy and Considerate Leadership Style are Associated with Supervisors' Likelihood to Accommodate Back Injured Workers.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2015Article
- Cost-utility of cognitive behavioral therapy for low back pain from the commercial payer perspective.Spine · 2015Article
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- Overview of data-synthesis in systematic reviews of studies on outcome prediction models.BMC medical research methodology · 2013Article
- Using a psychosocial subgroup assignment to predict sickness absence in a working population with neck and back pain.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2011Article
- Predictive ability of a modified Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire in an acute/subacute low back pain working population.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 · 2011Article
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Abstract
The objective of the study was to provide an inventory of predictive instruments and their constituting parameters associated with return to work in patients with subacute (2-10 weeks pain duration) and chronic (10-24 weeks pain duration) non-specific low back pain (NSLBP). Data sources included systematic review in Medline, Embase, Cinahl, Central, PEDro, Psyndex, PsychInfo/PsycLit, and Sociofile up to September 2008, in reference lists of systematic reviews on risk factors, and of included studies. For the systematic review, two reviewers independently assessed study eligibility and quality, and extracted data. Disagreements were resolved by consensus. Risk factors were inventorised and grouped into a somatic and psychosocial domain. 23 studies reporting on subacute and 16 studies reporting on chronic patients were included. The studies on subacute patients reported on a total of 56 biomedical factors out of which 35 (63%) were modifiable and 61 psychosocial factors out of which 51 (84%) were modifiable. The corresponding values in studies on chronic patients were 44 biomedical [27 (62%) modifiable] and 61 [40 (66%) modifiable] respectively. Our data suggest that the interdisciplinary approach in patients at risk to develop persistent NSLBP is justified in both, the subacute and chronic disease stages. Psychosocial interventions might be more effective in subacute stages since a higher proportion of modifiable risk factors were identified in that group.
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