ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2013
Mechanical low back pain--a rheumatologist's view.
Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Comparative Effects of Electro Dry Needling Versus Dry Needling on Pain, Endurance and Range of Motion in Patients With of Quadratus Lumborum Syndrome
Comparative Effects of McGill and McKenzie Exercises on Pain, Range of Motion and Disability in Patients With Chronic Mechanical Low Back Pain
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of education in patients undergoing physiotherapy for lower back pain: a level I systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025Pooled it
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- Comparison of intra subject repeatability of quantitative fluoroscopy and static radiography in the measurement of lumbar intervertebral flexion translation.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Elevated Production of Nociceptive CC Chemokines and sE-Selectin in Patients With Low Back Pain and the Effects of Spinal Manipulation: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.The Clinical journal of pain · 2018Trial
- Active and passive physical therapy in patients with chronic low-back pain: a level I Bayesian network meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2025Article
- Prognostic Factors in Patients Undergoing Physiotherapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Level I Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- The positive effect of pulse electromagnetic field therapy on pain and disability in chronic low back pain: a comparative study.Rheumatology international · 2024Article
- S100A6 Regulates nucleus pulposus cell apoptosis via Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway: an in vitro and in vivo study.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Physiotherapeutic and non-conventional approaches in patients with chronic low-back pain: a level I Bayesian network meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Enhancing Functional Ability in Chronic Nonspecific Lower Back Pain: The Impact of EMG-Guided Trunk Stabilization Exercises.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Injectable hydrogel with nucleus pulposus-matched viscoelastic property prevents intervertebral disc degeneration.Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2022Article
- A potential target gene CD63 for different degrees of intervertebral disc degeneration.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Identification of SMIM1 and SEZ6L2 as Potential Biomarkers for Genes Associated with Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Pyroptosis.Disease markers · 2022Article
- Role of Advanced Glycation End Products in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: Mechanism and Therapeutic Potential.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022Review
- Role of microRNAs in intervertebral disc degeneration (Review).Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2021Review
- Intervertebral Disc Stem/Progenitor Cells: A Promising "Seed" for Intervertebral Disc Regeneration.Stem cells international · 2021Review
- Biomimetic angle-ply multi-lamellar scaffold for annulus fibrosus tissue engineering.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2020Article
- Functional Improvements Utilizing the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) in the Elderly after Epidural Steroid Injections.Current pain and headache reports · 2019Review
- Aberrant intervertebral motion in patients with treatment-resistant nonspecific low back pain: a retrospective cohort study and control comparison.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 · 2018Article
- Patients' perceived needs for allied health, and complementary and alternative medicines for low back pain: A systematic scoping review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2018Article
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Abstract
Low back pain, in its acute and chronic forms, is one of the most common health problems and is frequently evaluated by rheumatologists. The multiple possible diagnoses associated with this symptom make correctly attributing back pain to a specific disease difficult. This dilemma necessitates an organized approach to separate patients with mechanical disorders from those with rare systemic disorders. The most common forms of back pain are mechanical. Gradual modifications in the axial skeletal structures over time result in pathological disorders that generally occur later in an individual's lifespan. The diagnostic process that identifies these mechanical disorders is straightforward and does not require expensive radiological or laboratory tests in the early phases of the evaluation. Most low back pain resolves without intervention, but some reports suggest that episodes of back pain are persistent or recurring for a substantial minority of patients. Therapies for back pain can be nonpharmacological, pharmacological or surgical. All interventions have limited capacity to resolve low back pain. Nonsurgical therapies are preferred for muscle injuries and osteoarthritis of the lumbar spine. Surgical interventions can resolve the pain and dysfunction of disc herniation and spinal stenosis more rapidly than conventional therapy, but surgical benefit wanes over time.
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