Management of Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain in Primary Care: A Descriptive Study
SpinePublished 1 January 1997Open access
Maurits W. van Tulder, Bart W. Koes, L.M. Bouter, Job Metsemakers
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Clinical guidelines are needed to improve the management of chronic low back pain in primary care as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients with chronicLow back pain seem to lack consistency.
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The therapeutic management of chronic low back pain seems to lack consistency. Clinical guidelines are needed to improve the management of chronic low back pain in primary care.
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