The clinical course of acute, subacute and persistent low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the clinical course of low back pain is essential to informing treatment recommendations and patient stratification. Our aim was to update our previous systematic review and meta-analysis to gain a better understanding of the clinical course of acute, subacute and persistent low back pain.

Methods

To update our 2012 systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched the Embase, MEDLINE and CINAHL databases from 2011 until January 2023, using our previous search strategy. We included prospective inception cohort studies if they reported on participants with acute (< 6 wk), subacute (6 to less than 12 wk) or persistent (12 to less than 52 wk) nonspecific low back pain at study entry. Primary outcome measures included pain and disability (0-100 scale). We

SUBMITTER: Wallwork SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805138 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature