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Management of Specific Pain Syndromes
Management of Specific Pain Syndromes
Management of Specific Pain Syndromes
- Lower back pain (LBP) is very common, in the USA and globally. The lifetime prevalence in the US is by some estimate 65-80%, and a substantial 10-40% of patients develop symptoms lasting for greater than six weeks.
- Risk factors for lower back pain are varied: male gender, current smoking, obesity, poor general health, physically demanding lifestyle, depression, anxiety, and other psychological stressors.
- There is also a prevalence of back pain in high-income countries relative to middle- or low-income countries.
- Common etiologies are myofascial pain, facet-mediated pain, discogenic pain, lumbar spinal stenosis, and lumbar radiculopathy
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