Low Back Pain

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Dyadic Investigation of Depressed Affect and Interspousal Behavior in Couples With Chronic Back Pain. 
  • A Novel Movement-Evoked Pain Provocation Test for Older Adults With Persistent Low Back Pain: Safety, Feasibility, and Associations With Self-reported Physical Function and Usual Gait Speed. 
  • A Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) for Stepped Care Management of Low Back Pain in the Military Health System: A Trial Protocol. 
  • A Standardized Assessment of Movement-evoked Pain Ratings Is Associated With Functional Outcomes in Older Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • A comparison of fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with lumbar spine pain and cervical spine pain. 
  • A comparison of physical characteristics and swing mechanics between golfers with and without a history of low back pain. 
  • A prospective, multi-institutional comparative effectiveness study of lumbar spine surgery in morbidly obese patients: does minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion result in superior outcomes? 
  • A protocol to reduce self-reported pain scores and adverse events following lumbar punctures in older adults. 
  • A psychometric investigation of fear-avoidance model measures in patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • A randomized trial of behavioral physical therapy interventions for acute and sub-acute low back pain (NCT00373867). 
  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of eszopiclone for the treatment of insomnia in patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria on low back pain. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Low Back Pain: 2021 Update. 
  • Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain: Recommendations to Medicare/Medicaid from the Society for Acupuncture Research. 
  • Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the development of chronic pain. 
  • Acute retinal necrosis following epidural steroid injections. 
  • Adding Physical Impairment to Risk Stratification Improved Outcome Prediction in Low Back Pain. 
  • Adding chiropractic manipulative therapy to standard medical care for patients with acute low back pain: results of a pragmatic randomized comparative effectiveness study. 
  • Age Group Comparisons of TENS Response Among Individuals With Chronic Axial Low Back Pain. 
  • An evidence map of yoga for low back pain. 
  • An exploratory pilot investigation of neurosteroids and self-reported pain in female Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans. 
  • An implantable restorative-neurostimulator for refractory mechanical chronic low back pain: a randomized sham-controlled clinical trial. 
  • Anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation in everyday life among patients with chronic low back pain: Relationships to patient pain and function. 
  • Anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation in everyday life among people with chronic low back pain: Relationships with spouse responses and negative affect. 
  • Anterior stabilization of three-column thoracolumbar spinal trauma. 
  • Are Changes in Fear-Avoidance Beliefs and Self-efficacy Mediators of Function and Pain at Discharge in Patients With Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain? 
  • Are Exercise and Physical Therapy Common Forms of Conservative Management in the Year Before Lumbar Spine Surgery? 
  • Assessing patient utilities for varying degrees of low back pain. 
  • Assessment of chiropractic care on strength, balance, and endurance in active-duty U.S. military personnel with low back pain: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Assessment of chiropractic outcomes for low back pain and neck pain: a health plan quality incentive model. 
  • Assessment of chiropractic treatment for active duty, U.S. military personnel with low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Association between physical activity and pain processing in adults with chronic low back pain compared to pain-free controls. 
  • Association of lumbar spine stiffness and flexion-relaxation phenomenon with patient-reported outcomes in adults with chronic low back pain - a single-arm clinical trial investigating the effects of thrust spinal manipulation. 
  • Back strength predicts walking improvement in obese, older adults with chronic low back pain. 
  • BeatPain Utah: study protocol for a pragmatic randomised trial examining telehealth strategies to provide non-pharmacologic pain care for persons with chronic low back pain receiving care in federally qualified health centers. 
  • Benefits of the Restorative Exercise and Strength Training for Operational Resilience and Excellence Yoga Program for Chronic Low Back Pain in Service Members: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Biomarkers and longitudinal changes in lumbar spine degeneration and low back pain: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Brief psychosocial education, not core stabilization, reduced incidence of low back pain: results from the Prevention of Low Back Pain in the Military (POLM) cluster randomized trial. 
  • COMParative Early Treatment Effectiveness between physical therapy and usual care for low back pain (COMPETE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Can a within/between-session change in pain during reassessment predict outcome using a manual therapy intervention in patients with mechanical low back pain? 
  • Case report: successful treatment of acute exertional paraspinal compartment syndrome with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. 
  • Change in psychosocial distress associated with pain and functional status outcomes in patients with lumbar impairments referred to physical therapy services. 
  • Characteristics of patients with lower extremity symptoms treated with slump stretching: a case series. 
  • Chiropractic Integrated Care Pathway for Low Back Pain in Veterans: Results of a Delphi Consensus Process. 
  • Chiropractic Services and Diagnoses for Low Back Pain in 3 U.S. Department of Defense Military Treatment Facilities: A Secondary Analysis of a Pragmatic Clinical Trial. 
  • Classification of older adults who underwent lumbar-related surgery using pre-operative biopsychosocial predictors and relationships with surgical recovery: An observational study conducted in the United States. 
  • Clinical Investigation of Pain-related Fear and Pain Catastrophizing for Patients With Low Back Pain. 
  • Clinical examination variables discriminate among treatment-based classification groups: a study of construct validity in patients with acute low back pain. 
  • Clinical guidelines for low back pain: A critical review of consensus and inconsistencies across three major guidelines. 
  • Clinical outcomes for patients classified by fear-avoidance beliefs and centralization phenomenon. 
  • Clinician-Level Predictors for Ordering Low-Value Imaging. 
  • Clinimetric Testing of the Lumbar Spine Instability Questionnaire. 
  • Cognitive therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and behavior therapy for people with chronic low back pain: A comparative mechanisms study. 
  • Collaborative Care for Older Adults with low back pain by family medicine physicians and doctors of chiropractic (COCOA): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Commentary on "Cognitive Functional Therapy in Patients with Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain". 
  • Comorbidity Subgroups Among Medicare Beneficiaries Seeking Health Care for Musculoskeletal Pain. 
  • Comparative Associations of Working Memory and Pain Catastrophizing With Chronic Low Back Pain Intensity. 
  • Comparing Propensity Score Methods for Creating Comparable Cohorts of Chiropractic Users and Nonusers in Older, Multiply Comorbid Medicare Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Comparison of brain structure between pain-susceptible and asymptomatic individuals following experimental induction of low back pain. 
  • Comparison of graded exercise and graded exposure clinical outcomes for patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Conflict about expressing emotions and chronic low back pain: associations with pain and anger. 
  • Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for lumbar facet joint pain from a multispecialty, international working group. 
  • Conservative Care in Lumbar Spine Surgery Trials: A Descriptive Literature Review. 
  • Criterion validation of the rate of recovery, single alphanumeric measure, in patients with low back pain. 
  • Critically appraised paper: Intensive patient education is no more effective than placebo education for reducing pain intensity in patients with acute low back pain [commentary]. 
  • Deconstructing Chronic Low Back Pain in the Older Adult-Step by Step Evidence and Expert-Based Recommendations for Evaluation and Treatment: Part II: Myofascial Pain. 
  • Deconstructing Chronic Low Back Pain in the Older Adult-Step by Step Evidence and Expert-Based Recommendations for Evaluation and Treatment: Part X: Sacroiliac Joint Syndrome. 
  • Deconstructing chronic low back pain in the older adult--Step by step evidence and expert-based recommendations for evaluation and treatment part III: Fibromyalgia syndrome. 
  • Delivering Value Through Equitable Care for Low Back Pain: A Renewed Call to Action. 
  • Depression and Functional Outcomes in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Low Back Pain. 
  • Depression and chronic low back pain: establishing priorities in treatment. 
  • Descriptive Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Musculoskeletal Program. 
  • Development of a Clinical Decision Aid for Chiropractic Management of Common Conditions Causing Low Back Pain in Veterans: Results of a Consensus Process. 
  • Development of a self-report measure of fearful activities for patients with low back pain: the fear of daily activities questionnaire. 
  • Diagnostic utility of clinical tests for spinal dysfunction. 
  • Differences in Characteristics and Downstream Drug Use Among Opioid-Naïve and Prior Opioid Users with Low Back Pain. 
  • Differences in comorbidities on low back pain and low back related leg pain. 
  • Differential diagnosis and management of ankylosing spondylitis masked as adhesive capsulitis: a resident's case problem. 
  • Dimensionality, internal consistency, and item analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys activities of daily living instrument among patients with report of low back pain. 
  • Direct repair of the pars interarticularis for spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis. 
  • Distinguishing patient satisfaction with treatment delivery from treatment effect: a preliminary investigation of patient satisfaction with symptoms after physical therapy treatment of low back pain. 
  • Do prognostic variables predict a set of outcomes for patients with chronic low back pain: a long-term follow-up secondary analysis of a randomized control trial. 
  • Does Disordered Sleep Moderate the Relationship Between Pain, Disability and Downstream Health Care Utilization in Patients With Low Back Pain?: A Longitudinal Cohort From the US Military Health System. 
  • Does clinical improvement of symptomatic degenerative lumbar disease impact obesity? 
  • Does early change predict long-term (6 months) improvements in subjects who receive manual therapy for low back pain? 
  • Does the use of a prescriptive clinical prediction rule increase the likelihood of applying inappropriate treatments? A survey using clinical vignettes. 
  • Dorsal thoracic spinal cord herniation: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Dynamic, but not static, pain sensitivity predicts exercise-induced muscle pain: covariation of temporal sensory summation and pain intensity. 
  • Early use of thrust manipulation versus non-thrust manipulation: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of Patient Use of Physical Therapy After Referral for Musculoskeletal Conditions on Future Medical Utilization: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. 
  • Effect of Pregnenolone vs Placebo on Self-reported Chronic Low Back Pain Among US Military Veterans: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of Restorative Neurostimulation on Major Drivers of Chronic Low Back Pain Economic Impact. 
  • Effect of Usual Medical Care Plus Chiropractic Care vs Usual Medical Care Alone on Pain and Disability Among US Service Members With Low Back Pain: A Comparative Effectiveness Clinical Trial. 
  • Effect of spinal manipulation on sensorimotor functions in back pain patients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effect of two different exercise regimens on trunk muscle morphometry and endurance in soldiers in training. 
  • Effectiveness and Downstream Healthcare Utilization for Patients That Received Early Physical Therapy Versus Usual Care for Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Effectiveness of spinal fusion versus structured rehabilitation in chronic low back pain patients with and without isthmic spondylolisthesis: a systematic review. 
  • Effects of Chiropractic Care on Strength, Balance, and Endurance in Active-Duty U.S. Military Personnel with Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Effects of a Home-Based Telephone-Supported Physical Activity Program for Older Adult Veterans With Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Effects of functional taping compared with sham taping and minimal intervention on pain intensity and static postural control for patients with non-specific chronic low back pain: a randomised clinical trial protocol. 
  • Effects of manual therapy and exercise targeting the hips in patients with low-back pain-A randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of sit-up training versus core stabilization exercises on sit-up performance. 
  • Effects of spinal manipulation on sensorimotor function in low back pain patients--A randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effects of spinal manipulation on trunk proprioception in subjects with chronic low back pain during symptom remission. 
  • Empirically derived back pain subgroups differentiated walking performance, pain, and disability. 
  • Ergonomic risk factors for low back pain in North Carolina crab pot and gill net commercial fishermen. 
  • Ergonomics in office-based surgery: a survey-guided observational study. 
  • Examination of acetabular labral tear: a continued diagnostic challenge. 
  • Exercise-induced pain intensity predicted by pre-exercise fear of pain and pain sensitivity. 
  • Factor structure and concurrent/convergent validity of the modified somatic perception questionnaire and pain beliefs instrument. 
  • Fear-avoidance beliefs and temporal summation of evoked thermal pain influence self-report of disability in patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Fear-avoidance beliefs as measured by the fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire: change in fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire is predictive of change in self-report of disability and pain intensity for patients with acute low back pain. 
  • Focus article report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Focus article: report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Forgiveness and chronic low back pain: a preliminary study examining the relationship of forgiveness to pain, anger, and psychological distress. 
  • Four Variables Were Sufficient for Low Back Pain: Determining Which Patient-Reported Tools Pain and Disability Improvements. 
  • Global and regional burden of disease and injury in 2016 arising from occupational exposures: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. 
  • Guideline summary review: an evidence-based clinical guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of low back pain. 
  • Harms and benefits of opioids for management of non-surgical acute and chronic low back pain: a systematic review. 
  • Health Care Resource Utilization and Management of Chronic, Refractory Low Back Pain in the United States. 
  • Health Care Resource Utilization of High-Frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Refractory Low Back Pain. 
  • Health-Related Quality of Life Among United States Service Members with Low Back Pain Receiving Usual Care Plus Chiropractic Care vs Usual Care Alone: Secondary Outcomes of a Pragmatic Clinical Trial. 
  • Home Exercise Programs Are Infrequently Prescribed in Trials of Supervised Exercise for Individuals With Low Back Pain: A Scoping Review of 292 Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • How spinal manipulative therapy works: why ask why? 
  • Identifying Treatment Effect Modifiers in the STarT Back Trial: A Secondary Analysis. 
  • Identifying patient fear-avoidance beliefs by physical therapists managing patients with low back pain. 
  • Identifying psychosocial variables in patients with acute work-related low back pain: the importance of fear-avoidance beliefs. 
  • Immediate changes after manual therapy in resting-state functional connectivity as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging in participants with induced low back pain. 
  • Immunoreactive substance P in human saliva. A possible marker of chronic pain. 
  • Impact of Dominant Symptom on 12-Month Patient-Reported Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Implications of early and guideline adherent physical therapy for low back pain on utilization and costs. 
  • Improving Veteran Access to Integrated Management of Back Pain (AIM-Back): Protocol for an Embedded Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Trial. 
  • In response to: Fábio Franciscatto Stieven, master candidate; Ferreira E Giovanni, undergraduate; Silva F Marcelo, doctor; Rosa T Luis, doctor. Thrust manipulation versus non-thrust manipulation: a question that still needs to be answered. 
  • Incidence and risk factors for first-time incident low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Incremental Effects of Telephone Call Center and Healthcare Utilization Database Use to Improve Follow-up Rate in the Prevention of Low Back Pain in the Military Trial. 
  • Inflammatory, Structural, and Pain Biochemical Biomarkers May Reflect Radiographic Disc Space Narrowing: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Influence of perioperative complication severity on 1- and 2-year outcomes of low back surgery. 
  • Insurer Coverage of Nonpharmacological Treatments for Low Back Pain-Time for a Change. 
  • Interdisciplinary Practice Models for Older Adults With Back Pain: A Qualitative Evaluation. 
  • Interdisciplinary team-based care for patients with chronic pain on long-term opioid treatment in primary care (PPACT) - Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. 
  • Interventions for the Management of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Revision 2021. 
  • Introduction of a psychologically informed educational intervention for pre-licensure physical therapists in a classroom setting. 
  • Investigating dynamic pain sensitivity in the context of the fear-avoidance model. 
  • Investigating the hypoalgesic effects of spinal manipulative therapy using hidden pain conditioning and positive expectation in patients with chronic low back pain: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Investigation of elevated fear-avoidance beliefs for patients with low back pain: a secondary analysis involving patients enrolled in physical therapy clinical trials. 
  • Islands of Inflammation: Neurosarcoidosis. 
  • Long-Term Outcomes of Restorative Neurostimulation in Patients With Refractory Chronic Low Back Pain Secondary to Multifidus Dysfunction: Two-Year Results of the ReActiv8-B Pivotal Trial. 
  • Loving-kindness meditation for chronic low back pain: results from a pilot trial. 
  • Low Back Pain Treatment by Athletic Trainers and Athletic Therapists: Biomedical or Biopsychosocial Orientation? 
  • Low Risk for Persistent Back Pain Disability Is Characterized by Lower Pain Sensitivity and Higher Physical Performance. 
  • Low back pain as perceived by the pain specialist. 
  • Low back pain as perceived by the pain specialist. 
  • Low back pain subgroups using fear-avoidance model measures: results of a cluster analysis. 
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  • Lumbar facet cyst resolution following anterior interbody fusion. 
  • Lumbar intervertebral disc diurnal deformations and T2 and T1rho relaxation times vary by spinal level and disc region. 
  • Lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Lumbar spine and hip flexibility and trunk strength in helicopter pilots with and without low back pain history. 
  • Magnitude of spinal muscle damage is not statistically associated with exercise-induced low back pain intensity. 
  • Management of Axial Disease in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis: An Updated Literature Review Informing the 2021 GRAPPA Treatment Recommendations. 
  • Management of the athlete with low back pain. 
  • Manual therapy provided by physical therapists in a hospital-based setting: a retrospective analysis. 
  • Measurement Properties of the Oswestry Disability Index in Recipients of Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Mental health symptoms in combat medic training: a longitudinal examination. 
  • Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain. 
  • Microsurgical treatment of sacral perineural (Tarlov) cysts: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Mind-Body Exercise Performed by Physical Therapists for Reducing Pain and Disability in Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis. 
  • More Than 1 in 3 Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Continue to Use Opioids Long-term After Spinal Fusion: A Systematic Review. 
  • Move to health-a holistic approach to the management of chronic low back pain: an intervention and implementation protocol developed for a pragmatic clinical trial. 
  • Multi-modal examination of psychological and interpersonal distinctions among MPI coping clusters: a preliminary study. 
  • Multicolumn spinal cord stimulation for predominant back pain in failed back surgery syndrome patients: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. 
  • Nonoperative care to manage the sacroiliac joint. 
  • Occupational risk factors for low back pain among drivers of three-wheelers in Sri Lanka. 
  • Operationalization of the new Pain and Disability Drivers Management model: A modified Delphi survey of multidisciplinary pain management experts. 
  • Optimization of Spinal Manipulative Therapy Protocols: A Factorial Randomized Trial Within a Multiphase Optimization Framework. 
  • Optimizing management of low back pain through the pain and disability drivers management model: A feasibility trial. 
  • Optimizing treatment protocols for spinal manipulative therapy: study protocol for a randomized trial. 
  • Over Half of Clinical Trials of Mobilization and Manipulation for Patients With Low Back Pain May Have Limited Real-World Applicability: A Systematic Review of 132 Clinical Trials. 
  • Pain Sensitivity and Pain Catastrophizing Are Associated With Persistent Pain and Disability After Lumbar Spine Surgery. 
  • Pain and Disability Following Exercise-Induced Injury in Prognostic and Intervention Studies: The Why May Be More Important Than the How. 
  • Pain measurement in elders with chronic low back pain: traditional and alternative approaches. 
  • Pain sensitivity subgroups in individuals with spine pain: potential relevance to short-term clinical outcome. 
  • Paradigm Shift in Geriatric Low Back Pain Management: Integrating Influences, Experiences, and Consequences. 
  • Patient-Reported Physician Treatment Recommendations and Compliance Among U.S. Adults with Low Back Pain. 
  • Patient-centered outcomes of high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation for low back pain: a systematic review. 
  • Patient-centered professional practice models for managing low back pain in older adults: a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Patients' use of physical therapy for lower back pain: A qualitative study. 
  • Perceptions and Response to Conservative Treatment of Low Back Pain in Soldiers During Initial Entry Training: A Convergence Mixed Methods Study. 
  • Performance of global assessments of hip, knee, and back symptom change. 
  • Perspectives of older adults on co-management of low back pain by doctors of chiropractic and family medicine physicians: a focus group study. 
  • Physical therapist management of a patient with acute low back pain and elevated fear-avoidance beliefs. 
  • Physical therapists' clinical knowledge of multidisciplinary low back pain treatment guidelines. 
  • Physical therapy utilization of graded exposure for patients with low back pain. 
  • Pragmatic Implementation of a Stratified Primary Care Model for Low Back Pain Management in Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings: Two-Phase, Sequential Preliminary Study. 
  • Predicting Low Back Pain Outcomes: Suggestions for Future Directions. 
  • Predictors of Lumbar Spine Degeneration and Low Back Pain in the Community: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Predictors of engagement in an internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for veterans with chronic low back pain. 
  • Predictors of occurrence and severity of first time low back pain episodes: findings from a military inception cohort. 
  • Predictors of pain and disability outcomes in one thousand, one hundred and eight patients who underwent lumbar discectomy surgery. 
  • Predictors of web-based follow-up response in the Prevention Of Low Back Pain In The Military Trial (POLM). 
  • Preference, expectation, and satisfaction in a clinical trial of behavioral interventions for acute and sub-acute low back pain. 
  • Preliminary Evaluation of a Modified STarT Back Screening Tool Across Different Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions. 
  • Prevalence and extent of low back pain and low back-related disability in non-care-seeking working-age adults. 
  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with low back pain among health care providers in a Kuwait hospital. 
  • Prevalence of radiographic findings in individuals with chronic low back pain screened for a randomized controlled trial: secondary analysis and clinical implications. 
  • Prevention of low back pain in the military cluster randomized trial: effects of brief psychosocial education on total and low back pain-related health care costs. 
  • Proposing six criteria to improve reproducibility of "usual care" interventions in back pain trials: a systematic review. 
  • Psychological Factors Are Related to Pain Intensity in Back-Healthy People Who Develop Clinically Relevant Pain During Prolonged Standing: A Preliminary Study. 
  • Psychological Predictors of Outcomes with Lumbar Spinal Fusion: A Systematic Literature Review. 
  • Psychological predictors of recovery from low back pain: a prospective study. 
  • Psychologically informed interventions for low back pain: an update for physical therapists. 
  • Psychosocial education improves low back pain beliefs: results from a cluster randomized clinical trial (NCT00373009) in a primary prevention setting. 
  • Psychosocial factors in low back pain: letting go of our misconceptions can help management. 
  • Psychosocial influences on low back pain: why should you care? 
  • Radiation dose exposure for lumbar spine epidural steroid injections: a comparison of conventional fluoroscopy data and CT fluoroscopy techniques. 
  • Rationale, design, and protocol for the prevention of low back pain in the military (POLM) trial (NCT00373009). 
  • Re: Early Physical Therapy for Acute Low Back Pain May Not Reduce Health Services Utilization, Costs, and Opioid Use. 
  • Re: Goertz CM, Long CR, Hondras MA, et al. Adding chiropractic to standard medical therapy for nonspecific low back pain. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013;38:627–34. 
  • Real-World Evidence for Restorative Neurostimulation in Chronic Low Back Pain-a Consecutive Cohort Study. 
  • Red flag screening for low back pain: nothing to see here, move along: a narrative review. 
  • Reducing Patient Radiation Exposure From CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Lumbar Spine Pain Injections by Targeting the Planning CT. 
  • Relationship between categorization with the STarT Back Screening Tool and prognosis for people receiving physical therapy for low back pain. 
  • Relationship of joint hypermobility with low Back pain and lumbar spine osteoarthritis. 
  • Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects. 
  • Report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Report of the NIH Task Force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Report of the NIH Task Force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Report of the NIH Task Force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Report of the National Institutes of Health task force on research standards for chronic low back pain. 
  • Reporting of Sex Effects by Systematic Reviews on Interventions for Depression, Diabetes, and Chronic Pain. 
  • Reproducibility of resistance exercise therapy interventions in trials for chronic low back pain is challenging: A systematic review. 
  • Resistance exercise, disability, and pain catastrophizing in obese adults with back pain. 
  • Return to sport after open and microdiscectomy surgery versus conservative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: a systematic review with meta-analysis. 
  • Revision lumbar surgery in elderly patients with symptomatic pseudarthrosis, adjacent-segment disease, or same-level recurrent stenosis. Part 2. A cost-effectiveness analysis: clinical article. 
  • Risk Factors Associated With Transition From Acute to Chronic Low Back Pain in US Patients Seeking Primary Care. 
  • Risk Factors for Low Back Pain and Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study in Soldiers. 
  • Risk stratification of patients with low back pain seen in physical therapy practice. 
  • Safeguards to prevent neurologic complications after epidural steroid injections: consensus opinions from a multidisciplinary working group and national organizations. 
  • Screening for problematic low back pain: STarT. 
  • Self-discrepancy in chronic low back pain: relation to pain, depression, and psychological distress. 
  • Self-extraction of intrathecal pump opioid. 
  • Self-reported pain and disability outcomes from an endogenous model of muscular back pain. 
  • Self-system therapy for distress associated with persistent low back pain: A randomized clinical trial. 
  • Severe systemic inflammatory response syndrome immediately after spinal surgery in a patient with axial gout. 
  • Sex and pain-related psychological variables are associated with thermal pain sensitivity for patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Sex differences in predictors of outcome in selected physical therapy interventions for acute low back pain. 
  • Sex differences in the associations among psychological factors and pain report: a novel psychophysical study of patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Similar Effects of Thrust and Nonthrust Spinal Manipulation Found in Adults With Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Controlled Trial With Adaptive Allocation. 
  • Spinal manipulative therapy has an immediate effect on thermal pain sensitivity in people with low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Spinal manipulative therapy-specific changes in pain sensitivity in individuals with low back pain (NCT01168999). 
  • Spouse Criticism/Hostility Toward Partners With Chronic Pain: The Role of Spouse Attributions for Patient Control Over Pain Behaviors. 
  • Spouse criticism and hostility during marital interaction: effects on pain intensity and behaviors among individuals with chronic low back pain. 
  • Spouse-assisted training in pain coping skills and the outcome of multidisciplinary pain management for chronic low back pain treatment: a 1-year randomized controlled trial. 
  • Star-Shape Kinesio Taping Is Not Better Than a Minimal Intervention or Sham Kinesio Taping for Pain Intensity and Postural Control in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Static and Dynamic Pain Sensitivity in Adults With Persistent Low Back Pain: Comparison to Healthy Controls and Associations With Movement-evoked Pain Versus Traditional Clinical Pain Measures. 
  • Study protocol for patient response to spinal manipulation - a prospective observational clinical trial on physiological and patient-centered outcomes in patients with chronic low back pain. 
  • Study protocol for targeted interventions to prevent chronic low back pain in high-risk patients: A multi-site pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial (TARGET Trial). 
  • Subgrouping for patients with low back pain: a multidimensional approach incorporating cluster analysis and the STarT Back Screening Tool. 
  • Subgrouping of low back pain patients for targeting treatments: evidence from genetic, psychological, and activity-related behavioral approaches. 
  • Subjective and objective descriptors of clinical lumbar spine instability: a Delphi study. 
  • Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy of patient history, clinical findings, and physical tests in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis. 
  • Targeted interventions to prevent transitioning from acute to chronic low back pain in high-risk patients: development and delivery of a pragmatic training course of psychologically informed physical therapy for the TARGET trial. 
  • Technique for CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks and Radiofrequency Ablation. 
  • The "Hassle Factor": what motivates physicians to manipulate reimbursement rules? 
  • The Association Between Leisure-time Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Low Back Pain: A Cross-sectional Analysis in Primary Care Settings. 
  • The Association Between Use of Chiropractic Care and Costs of Care Among Older Medicare Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain and Multiple Comorbidities. 
  • The Communal Coping Model of Pain Catastrophizing in Daily Life: A Within-Couples Daily Diary Study. 
  • The Development of a Technology-Based Hierarchy to Assess Chronic Low Back Pain and Pain-Related Anxiety From a Fear-Avoidance Model. 
  • The Effect of Timing of Physical Therapy for Acute Low Back Pain on Health Services Utilization: A Systematic Review. 
  • The Manual Therapy and Strengthening for the Hip (MASH) Trial: Protocol for a Multisite Randomized Trial of a Subgroup of Older Adults With Chronic Back and Hip Pain. 
  • The National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N2QOD): a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care. 
  • The Role of Cognitive Content and Cognitive Processes in Chronic Pain: An Important Distinction? 
  • The STarT Back Screening Tool for prediction of 6-month clinical outcomes: relevance of change patterns in outpatient physical therapy settings. 
  • The STarT back screening tool and individual psychological measures: evaluation of prognostic capabilities for low back pain clinical outcomes in outpatient physical therapy settings. 
  • The association between lumbar spine radiographic features and low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • The centralization phenomenon and fear-avoidance beliefs as prognostic factors for acute low back pain: a preliminary investigation involving patients classified for specific exercise. 
  • The effect of a fear-avoidance-based physical therapy intervention for patients with acute low back pain: results of a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The effect of chiropractic treatment on the reaction and response times of special operation forces military personnel: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The effect of neuroticism on the recall of persistent low-back pain and perceived activity interference. 
  • The effectiveness of low-level laser therapy for nonspecific chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • The hips influence on low back pain: a distal link to a proximal problem. 
  • The index case for the fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States. 
  • The influence of a MOBile-based video Instruction for Low back pain (MOBIL) on initial care decisions made by primary care providers: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • The influence of rural versus urban residence on utilization and receipt of care for chronic low back pain. 
  • The promise and challenge of virtual gaming technologies for chronic pain: the case of graded exposure for low back pain. 
  • The relationship between chief complaint and comparable sign in patients with spinal pain: An exploratory study. 
  • The relationship between lumbar lordosis and radiologic variables and lumbar lordosis and clinical variables in elderly, African-American women. 
  • The relationship of the audible pop to hypoalgesia associated with high-velocity, low-amplitude thrust manipulation: a secondary analysis of an experimental study in pain-free participants. 
  • The role of anger in psychosocial subgrouping for patients with low back pain. 
  • The role of fear-avoidance beliefs in acute low back pain: relationships with current and future disability and work status. 
  • The role of patients' expectation of appropriate initial manual therapy treatment in outcomes for patients with low back pain. 
  • The use of STarT back screening tool to predict functional disability outcomes in patients receiving physical therapy for low back pain. 
  • The use of a classification approach to identify subgroups of patients with acute low back pain. Interrater reliability and short-term treatment outcomes. 
  • Three-Year Durability of Restorative Neurostimulation Effectiveness in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain and Multifidus Muscle Dysfunction. 
  • Thrust and nonthrust manipulation for older adults with low back pain: an evaluation of pain and disability. 
  • Transforming low back pain care delivery in the United States. 
  • Treatment effect modifiers for individuals with acute low back pain: secondary analysis of the TARGET trial. 
  • Treatment monitoring as a component of psychologically informed physical therapy: A case series of patients at high risk for persistent low back pain related disability. 
  • Treatment of chronic axial back pain with 60-day percutaneous medial branch PNS: Primary end point results from a prospective, multicenter study. 
  • Trunk stabilization training: an evidence basis for the current state of affairs. 
  • Two-level reverse Bohlman transsoseous approach for treatment of symptomatic pseudarthrosis. 
  • Use of healthcare resources in patients with low back pain and comorbid depression or anxiety. 
  • Using a behavioral model to identify factors associated with choice of provider for neck and low back pain: A systematic review. 
  • Using an internet intervention to support self-management of low back pain in primary care: findings from a randomised controlled feasibility trial (SupportBack). 
  • Using an internet intervention to support self-management of low back pain in primary care: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (SupportBack). 
  • Using intake and change in multiple psychosocial measures to predict functional status outcomes in people with lumbar spine syndromes: a preliminary analysis. 
  • Validity of a Paradigm for Low Back Pain Symptom Development During Prolonged Standing. 
  • Validity of pain behaviors in persons with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. 
  • Variability in negative emotions among individuals with chronic low back pain: relationships with pain and function. 
  • Variables Describing Individuals With Improved Pain and Function With a Primary Complaint of Low Back Pain: A Secondary Analysis. 
  • Veteran Response to Dosage in Chiropractic Therapy (VERDICT): Study Protocol of a Pragmatic Randomized Trial for Chronic Low Back Pain. 
  • Visit Frequency and Outcomes for Patients Using Ongoing Chiropractic Care for Chronic Low-Back and Neck Pain: An Observational Longitudinal Study. 
  • What does it take to facilitate the integration of clinical practice guidelines for the management of low back pain into practice? Part 1: A synthesis of recommendation. 
  • What does it take to facilitate the integration of clinical practice guidelines for the management of low back pain into practice? Part 2: A strategic plan to activate dissemination. 
  • Which patients do not seek additional medical care after a self-management class for low back pain? An observational cohort. 
  • Which prognostic factors for low back pain are generic predictors of outcome across a range of recovery domains? 
  • Yoga may be noninferior to physical therapy for disability and pain at 12 weeks and both might improve function more than education in low resource adults with chronic nonspecific low back pain. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anwar, Muhammad Farooq, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Pain Management
  • Keefe, Francis Joseph, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Taylor, Ken, Postdoctoral Associate, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy