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A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability

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The Back Pain Revolution

The problem diagnostic triage pain and disability back pain through history the epidemiology of back pain risk factors the clinical course of low back pain the physical basis of simple backache…

Interpreting Change Scores for Pain and Functional Status in Low Back Pain: Towards International Consensus Regarding Minimal Important Change

Proposed MIC values are not the final answer but offer a common starting point for future research and facilitate the use of these measures in clinical practice and the comparability of future studies.
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Outcome Measures for Low Back Pain Research: A Proposal for Standardized Use

An international group of back pain researchers considered recommendations for standardized measures in clinical outcomes research in patients with back pain and recommended a short, 6‐item questionnaire and a somewhat expanded, more precise battery of questionnaires, which would facilitate scientific advances in clinical care.
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A Consensus Approach Toward the Standardization of Back Pain Definitions for Use in Prevalence Studies

These definitions provide standards that may improve future comparisons of low back pain prevalence figures by person, place and time characteristics, and offer opportunities for statistical summaries.
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Information and advice to patients with back pain can have a positive effect. A randomized controlled trial of a novel educational booklet in primary care.

This trial shows that carefully selected and presented information and advice about back pain can have a positive effect on patients' beliefs and clinical outcomes, and suggests that a study of clinically important effects in individual patients may provide further insights into the management of low back pain.
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Occupational health guidelines for the management of low back pain at work: evidence review.

There is increasing demand for evidence-based health care. Back pain is one of the most common and difficult occupational health problems, but there has been no readily available evidence base or…
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The Distress and Risk Assessment Method: A Simple Patient Classification to Identify Distress and Evaluate the Risk of Poor Outcome

The Distress and Risk Assessment Method is derived from a simple set of scales validated for use with patients with low-back pain and offers a simple classification of patients into those showing no psychological distress, those at risk of developing major psychological overlay, and those clearly distressed.
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Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Low Back Pain in Primary Care: An International Comparison

The comparison of clinical guidelines for the management of low back pain showed that diagnostic and therapeutic recommendations were generally similar, but there were discrepancies for recommendations regarding exercise therapy, spinal manipulation, muscle relaxants, and patient information.
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Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being?

There is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical andmental health and well-being, taking into account the nature and quality of work and its social context, and that worklessness is associated with poorer physical and mental health.
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