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March 15-18, 2011
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Putting Together a Multi-Disciplinary Research Puzzle: How Specific Might Some Non-Specific Low Back Pain Be?
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May 26-28, 2011
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Towards a more precise diagnosis / Clinical guidelines – where they need to go?
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Attention Clinicians |
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Our greatest challenge is that we don’t know the cause of most low back and neck
pain.
The Quebec Task Force was the first published comprehensive review of the low back
pain literature. It concluded that our initial low back assessment and diagnosis
is so variable, and therefore so inaccurate, that clinicians then make one error
after another in their decisions on how to treat it.
The bad news is that not much has changed for most clinicians and for their patients
since 1987 when that report was published. Subsequent clinical guidelines have been
of little further help in distinguishing one patient from another in a way that
would improve individualized care rather than continuing to offer the currently
available wide variety of one-size-fits-all solutions.
There is some very good news however. Over those same years, numerous studies, unfortunately
still ignored by most clinical guidelines, have documented a way to examine patients
that reliably identifies very effective treatment for nearly 90% of acute and 50%
of chronic LBP without needing to depend on the mere passage of time for their recovery.
That same evaluation also directs your decisions for the remainder of your patients.
This great success is based on a single discovery that is having great and growing
impact on our understanding of low back and neck pain and how to effectively manage
it.
So what is this great discovery? Two intertwined clinical findings: pain centralization
and directional preference, when elicited, routinely lead to excellent and rapid
recoveries if treated properly, while decisions on how to proceed in managing patients
without these findings is greatly clarified as well.
For your patients’ welfare, and specifically for your cost-effective management
of their low back and neck pain, you would do well to learn more about these findings,
including how to elicit and respond to them.
We have a number of educational tools available for clinicians who care for patients
with low back and neck pain.
Webinar presentations
about back and neck pain
Do you want to refer your patients to an MDT-trained clinician
in your community? To find one, click here.
“Rapidly Reversible Low Back Pain” is a powerful
don’t-miss book written for those who care for low back pain.
“Solving the Mystery: The Key to Rapid Recoveries From Most Back and Neck Pain” is a book written specifically for your patients with back or neck pain, but also for you.
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