Back Pain Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Back Pain, including details on lower back pain, sciatica, treatment, prevention, medication.

Volume 2 (2005), Issue 4 (April)

1. Effect on the process of care of an active strategy to implement clinical guidelines on physiotherapy for low back pain: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
   Qual Saf Health Care, 14(2): 107-12. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Back muscle strength and fatigue in healthy and chronic low back pain subjects: a comparative study of 3 assessment protocols.
   Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 86(4): 722-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Raised paraspinal muscle activity reduces rate of stature recovery after loaded exercise in individuals with chronic low back pain.
   Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 86(4): 710-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. The effect of surgical weight reduction on functional status in morbidly obese patients with low back pain.
   Obes Surg, 15(3): 378-81. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Assessing patient utilities for varying degrees of low back pain.
   Acad Radiol, 12(4): 467-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Lower back pain in the athlete: common conditions and treatment.
   Prim Care, 32(1): 201-29. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Effect of Iyengar yoga therapy for chronic low back pain.
   Pain, 115(1): 107-17. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Supplementation of general endurance exercise with stabilisation training versus general exercise only. Physiological and functional outcomes of a randomised controlled trial of patients with recurrent low back pain.
   Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon), 20(5): 474-82. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Trunk muscle recruitment patterns in specific chronic low back pain populations.
   Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon), 20(5): 465-73. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Lower back problems and occupational risk factors in a South African steel industry.
    Am J Ind Med, 47(5): 451-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Etoricoxib: a highly selective COX-2 inhibitor.
    Ann Pharmacother, 39(5): 854-62. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. Job strain, iso-strain, and the incidence of low back and neck injuries. A 7.5-year prospective study of San Francisco transit operators.
    Soc Sci Med, 61(1): 27-39. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Prevalence and factors associated to low back pain among hospital staff.
    Joint Bone Spine, 72(3): 254-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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