The Constellation of Chronic Low Back Pain and Other Subjective Symptoms: Does the View Differ From China?

ABSTRACT:

Study design

This was a pilot, cross-sectional study. Its site was West China Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

Objective

An objective was to explore whether, in China, chronic low back pain (cLBP) characteristically is one symptom among co-occurring subjective symptoms. More basic objectives were to test a supplemented list of symptoms and to reconfigure findings from the literature on co-occurrence of symptoms so that they pertain specifically to cLBP. The governing metaphor was a constellation of symptoms in which cLBP is located.

Summary of background data

With the exception of small, isolated societies, previous studies of co-occurrence of symptoms were conducted in the affluent West. Although China's population is larger than the combined populations of aff

SUBMITTER: Volinn E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4826330 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature