PURPOSE To investigate the prevalence of low back pain among Finnish firefighters and to examine whether sleep disturbances predict membership of low back pain trajectories. METHODS In this prospective study, 360 actively working firefighters responded to a questionnaire in 1996, 1999 and 2009. The outcome variables were radiating and local low back pain during the preceding year. Using logis...

Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire scores of a group of male patients attending a physiotherapy department for treatment of low back pain distinguished between those patients with a good and those with a poor outoutcome. Comparing the scores of these two groups with those of a normal male population suggests that there are two distinct populations of patients with low back pain. A questionnaire m...

The aim of the present study was to assess prospectively patients' response to facet joint injection performed for lumbar back pain, and to check if it correlates with the response predicted by the Helbig and Lee scoring system. Fifty-seven patients who had facet joint injections for mechanical low back pain unresponsive to medical treatment, were followed-up. Patients' perception of improvemen...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the prospective influence of multisite pain, depression, anxiety, self-rated health and pain-related disability on recovery from chronic low back pain (LBP). SETTING The data is derived from the second (1995-1997) and third (2006-2008) wave of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) in Norway. PARTICIPANTS The study population comprises 4484 women a...

BACKGROUND Movement control impairment reduces active control of movement. Patients with this might form an important subgroup among patients with mechanical cervical pain. Diagnosis is based on the observation of active movement tests. Although widely used clinically, few studies have been performed to determine the reliability of a test battery. The aim of this study was to determine the inte...

BACKGROUND A considerable number of studies have identified the risk factors attributable to job-related stress among nurses. However, studies investigating psychological symptoms among hospital nurses is still lacking, especially in Taiwan, where the average patient to nurse ratio is among the highest in the world. This study aimed to investigate the potential role of self-rated health status,...

This study established the effectiveness of a workplace multifaceted intervention consisting of participatory ergonomics, physical training, and cognitive-behavioural training (CBT) for low back pain (LBP). Between November 2012 and May 2014, we conducted a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial with 594 workers from eldercare workplaces (nursing homes and home care) random...

A method of distinguishing between three categories of patients with low back pain as seen in general practice is described. It was found that the main discriminatory factors were based on restricted movement and on a past history of psychiatric illness. The experimental findings are discussed and compared with previous published works.

OBJECTIVE Low back pain is a common complaint among pregnant women. It is estimated that about 50% of pregnant women complain of some form of back pain at some point in pregnancy or during the postpartum period. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of low back pain during pregnancy and its characteristics. METHODS Cross-sectional study with low-risk pregnant women. After approv...

OBJECTIVE To report on the results of the consensus process integrating evidence from preliminary studies to develop the first version of a Comprehensive ICF Core Set and a Brief ICF Core Set for low back pain. METHODS A formal decision-making and consensus process integrating evidence gathered from preliminary studies was followed. Preliminary studies included a Delphi exercise, a systematic...