Trajectories of Disability and Low Back Pain Impact: 2-year Follow-up of the Groningen Spine Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Prospective cohort study.

Objective

The aim of this study was to identify treatment response trajectories in patients with low back pain (LBP) during and after multidisciplinary care in a tertiary spine center, and to examine baseline patient characteristics that can distinguish trajectories.

Summary of background data

Treatment response is often heterogeneous between patients with LBP. Knowledge on key characteristics that are associated with courses of disability could identify patients at risk for less favorable outcome. This knowledge will help improve shared decision-making.

Methods

Adult patients with LBP completed questionnaires on disability (Pain Disability Index) and LBP impact (Impact Stratification of the National Institutes of Health m

SUBMITTER: Dutmer AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7647438 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature