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 5 (2008), Issue 2 (February)

1. Patient expectations as predictors of outcome in patients with acute low back pain.
   J Gen Intern Med, 23(2): 148-53. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of carisoprodol 250-mg tablets in the treatment of acute lower-back spasm.
   Curr Med Res Opin, 24(2): 551-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Psychosocial risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the lower-back among long-haul international female flight attendants.
   J Adv Nurs, 61(5): 492-502. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. How does the self-reported clinical management of patients with low back pain relate to the attitudes and beliefs of health care practitioners? A survey of UK general practitioners and physiotherapists.
   Pain, 135(1): 187-95. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Psychosocial predictors of health-related quality of life and health service utilisation in people with chronic low back pain.
   Pain, 135(1): 142-50. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Pseudoradicular and radicular low-back pain--a disease continuum rather than different entities? Answers from quantitative sensory testing.
   Pain, 135(1): 65-74. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems.
   JAMA, 299(6): 656-64. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. Low back pain in the aging athlete.
   Sports Med Arthrosc, 16(1): 39-46. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. Effects of multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation for chronic back or neck pain: a register-linkage study of sickness absences and analgesic purchases in an occupational cohort.
   Occup Environ Med, 65(3): 179-84. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. A double blind randomised controlled clinical trial on the effect of transcutaneous spinal electroanalgesia (TSE) on low back pain.
    Eur J Pain, 12(3): 371-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Affective pain modulation in fibromyalgia, somatoform pain disorder, back pain, and healthy controls.
    Eur J Pain, 12(3): 329-38. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. The impact of specialist care for low back pain on health service utilization in primary care patients: a prospective cohort study.
    Eur J Pain, 12(3): 275-83. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. General practitioner sickness absence certification for low back pain is not directly associated with beliefs about back pain.
    Eur J Pain, 12(3): 314-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Effect of training and lifting equipment for preventing back pain in lifting and handling: systematic review.
    BMJ, 336(7641): 429-31. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. The basis for recommending repeating epidural steroid injections for radicular low back pain: a literature review.
    Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 89(3): 543-52. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Healthcare provider back pain beliefs unaffected by a media campaign.
    Scand J Prim Health Care, 26(1): 50-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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