Low back pain: a call for action

Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exis...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 391; no. 10137; pp. 2384 - 2388
Main Authors: Buchbinder, Rachelle, van Tulder, Maurits, Öberg, Birgitta, Costa, Lucíola Menezes, Woolf, Anthony, Schoene, Mark, Croft, Peter, Hartvigsen, Jan, Cherkin, Dan, Foster, Nadine E, Maher, Chris G, Underwood, Martin, Anema, Johannes R, Chou, Roger, Cohen, Stephen P, Menezes Costa, Lucíola, Ferreira, Manuela, Ferreira, Paulo H, Fritz, Julie M, Genevay, Stéphane, Gross, Douglas P, Hancock, Mark J, Hoy, Damian, Karppinen, Jaro, Koes, Bart W, Kongsted, Alice, Louw, Quinette, Peul, Wilco C, Pransky, Glenn, Sieper, Joachim, Smeets, Rob J, Turner, Judith A
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Ltd 09.06.2018
Elsevier Limited
Subjects:
Abnormalities
Awareness
Back pain
Chiropractic medicine
Clinical decision making
Cost of Illness
Councils
Decision making
Delivery of Health Care - standards
Economic conditions
Editorials
Efficiency
Exercise - physiology
Funding
Global Health - legislation & jurisprudence
Health care policy
Health insurance
Humans
Income
Income - trends
Informal economy
Life Style
Low back pain
Low Back Pain - complications
Low Back Pain - epidemiology
Low Back Pain - prevention & control
Low Back Pain - therapy
Low income groups
Medical research
Nonprofit organizations
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Pain
Pain Management - methods
Prevention
Public health
Scholarships & fellowships
Self-Management - methods
Sick Leave - economics
Sick Leave - statistics & numerical data
Treatment Outcome
Australia
Sweden
Netherlands
ISSN:0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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Summary:Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exist, the effects will probably be more extreme in these regions. Most low back pain is unrelated to specific identifiable spinal abnormalities, and our Viewpoint, the third paper in this Lancet Series,2,3 is a call for action on this global problem of low back pain.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30488-4