Background: Although low-back pain is a highly prevalent condition, its clinical course
remains uncertain. Our main objective was to systematically review the literature on the …

Low back pain is the leading cause for years lived in disability. Most people with acute low
back pain improve rapidly, but 4% to 25% of patients become chronic. Since the previous …

Background and objective Non‐specific low back pain is a relatively common and recurrent
condition for which at present there is no effective cure. In current guidelines, the prognosis …

This guideline covers the management of persistent or recurrent low back pain defined as
non-specific low back pain that has lasted for more than 6 weeks, but for less than 12 …

Study Design. Inception cohort study. Objective. To provide the first reliable estimate of the 1-
year incidence of recurrence in subjects recently recovered from acute nonspecific low back …

Study Design Systematic review. Background While most people with acute low back pain
(LBP) recover quickly, recurrences are believed to be common. To our knowledge, no …

Background Evidence suggests that the course of low back pain (LBP) symptoms in
randomised clinical trials (RCTs) follows a pattern of large improvement regardless of the …

Questions How commonly and how quickly does low back pain reoccur in a cohort of people
who have recently recovered from an episode of low back pain? What are the prognostic …

Low back pain is an extremely common problem that most people experience at some point
in their life. While substantial heterogeneity exists among low back pain epidemiological …

It is often claimed that up to 90% of low back pain (LBP) episodes resolve spontaneously
within 1 month. However, the literature in this area is confusing due to considerable …