ArticleThe journal of pain2023
Definitions of Chronic Low Back Pain From a Scoping Review, and Analyses of Narratives and Self-Reported Health of Adults With Low Back Pain.
Article in The journal of pain, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04426812 (Measuring Chronic Pain Impact), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Measuring Chronic Pain Impact
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- 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
- Development and internal validation of an explainable machine learning model for predicting functional disability trajectories in hospitalized older patients with chronic low back pain.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A multicenter study on the prediction model for chronic low back pain after lumbar decompression surgery in patients with diabetes mellitus: integration of metabolic and paraspinal muscle features.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 · 2026Article
- Associations between MRI changes of degenerative lumbar spine and Oswestry Disability Index in patients with chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- [Pain neuroscience education as an intervention to improve quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain : A scoping review of randomised controlled trials].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Association of glucose metabolism status and paraspinal muscle degeneration with chronic pain after endoscopic lumbar decompression: a multicentre retrospective study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
- Impact of nutritional status and abnormal bone-muscle metabolism on chronic low back pain after lumbar decompression surgery: a multicenter predictive model study based on paraspinal muscle parameters.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Proposal and Initial Validation of a Brief Questionnaire for Epidemiological Assessment of Low Back Pain.Pain research & management · 2026Article
- The effect of baseline spinal magnetic resonance imaging features on restorative neurostimulation efficacy in patients with chronic low back pain.Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2025Article
- Using graph machine learning to identify functioning in patients with low back pain in terms of ICF.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Morphological characteristics of the thoracolumbar fascia: relationship to chronic low back pain and back extension strength.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 · 2025Article
- Intermuscular adipose tissue and lean muscle mass assessed with MRI in people with chronic back pain in Germany: a retrospective observational study.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2025Article
- Lumbar Temperature Map of Elderly Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain-An Infrared Thermographic Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association between lifestyle-related factors and low back pain: Evidence from a Japanese population-based study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Are some ways of defining chronic low back pain more indicative of future back pain than others?Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Comparison of a 30-year trend of incidence, prevalence, and DALY due to low back pain in Iran with Low- and High-SDI countries; Based on GBD study 2019 Data.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Among those with low back pain (LBP), individuals with chronic LBP (CLBP) face different treatment recommendations and incur the majority of suffering and costs. However, the way CLBP has been defined varies greatly. This study used a scoping review and qualitative and quantitative analyses of data from LBP patients to explore this variation. CLBP in most recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was defined by duration of pain, most commonly ≥3 months. However, individuals with LBP most often define CLBP by frequency. CLBP has also been defined using a combination of duration and frequency (16% of RCTs and 20% of individuals), including 6% of recent RCTs that followed the NIH Pain Consortium research task force (RTF) definition. Although not a defining characteristic of CLBP for individuals, almost 15% of recent RCTs required CLBP to have a healthcare provider diagnosis. In our LBP sample moving from ≥3 months to the RTF definition reduced the CLBP group size by 25% and resulted in a group that used more pain management options and reported worse health across all outcome measures. A pain duration definition offers ease of application. However, refinements to this definition (eg, RTF) can identify those who may be better intervention targets. PERSPECTIVE: This article presents the definitions used for CLBP by researchers and individuals, and the impact of these definitions on pain management and health outcomes. This information may help researchers choose better study inclusion criteria and clinicians to better understand their patients' beliefs about CLBP.
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