Non-specific low back pain affects people of all ages and is a leading contributor to disease
burden worldwide. Management guidelines endorse triage to identify the rare cases of low …

Purpose To summarise recommendations about 20 non-surgical interventions for recent
onset (< 12 weeks) non-specific low back pain (LBP) and lumbar radiculopathy (LR) based …

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an
ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy …

Neck pain is the fourth leading cause of disability, with an annual prevalence rate exceeding
30%. Most episodes of acute neck pain will resolve with or without treatment, but nearly 50 …

Background For many years, low back pain has been both the leading cause of days lost
from work and the leading indication for medical rehabilitation. The goal of the German …

Background: Chronic axial spinal pain is one of the major causes of significant disability and
health care costs, with facet joints as one of the proven causes of pain. Objective: To provide …

Background Acupuncture has been applied to relieve low back pain (LBP) in many
countries. However, a bibliometric analysis of the global use of acupuncture for LBP is rare …

OBJECTIVE: To develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for interventional
techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic spinal pain. METHODOLOGY …

Background Manipulation and mobilisation are commonly used to treat neck pain. This is an
update of a Cochrane review first published in 2003, and previously updated in 2010 …

Background Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a frequent cause of disability and it represents
a medical, social and economic burden globally. Therefore, we assessed effectiveness of …