Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation

Epidemiological studies of back pain will never reveal cause and effect, or efficacy, because each person will respond to a different approach and different dosage. Thus, a controlled study on back pain will result in the conclusion of no effect. However, when patients are categorized into subgroups based on pathomechanics, or pain patterns, or his

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The contentious issues now include diagnosis of the specific condition, objectively quantifying pain, the existence of a candidate injury mechanism, whether exam findings are clinically relevant, and the ability of a medical image to show pathology. For example, a disc herniation often shrinks and grows depending on the prior loading history. How i

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