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ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine

Lifestyle Medicine for Chronic Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach.

Ziya Altug

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Review in American journal of lifestyle medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Integrative Treatment Strategies for Chronic Back Pain: A Literature Review with Clinical Recommendations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
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  8. Back Pain: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
  9. Health educationFrontiers in public health · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ziya AltugIntegrativeDPT.com, Los Angeles, California.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9419-7366

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lower back pain is a leading cause of work absence and activity limitations globally, with a 60% to 85% lifetime chance of occurrence. This article highlights the role that lifestyle medicine plays in managing lower back pain as a cost-effective intervention strategy. It is suggested that lifestyle medicine strategies, such as incorporating whole foods and a plant-based diet, sustainable physical activity and mind-body exercises, restorative sleep, stress resiliency, awareness and mitigation of substance abuse and addiction, and establishing meaningful social networks and self-care strategies, be a part of managing chronic lower back pain.

Indexed as

exerciselifestyle medicinelower back painphysical activityself-care

Identifiers

PMID34366741
PMCPMC8299916

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Registered trials

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