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Volume 4, Issue 4January 1999


BACKGROUND PAIN
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PRACTICE POINTS:

Post-traumatic causation must take into account both previous patterns of illness and the incidence of unprovoked symptoms

"Spontaneous" onset Low Back Pain is so common that post-traumatic proximate causation is frequently suspect

90% of sufferers from a new episode of Low Back Pain stop consulting by 3 months, but the majority still have pain at a year

Predictors of poor outcome:

1. depression
2. younger age
3. pain below the knee
4. associated disability
5. numbers of pain days
6. less educated
7. female

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