Low back pain: Moving toward mechanism-based management

Seyed Javad Mousavi; Jaap H van Dieën; Dennis E Anderson

doi:10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2018.12.010

Low back pain: Moving toward mechanism-based management

Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon). 2019 Jan:61:190-191. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2018.12.010. Epub 2018 Dec 11.

Authors

Seyed Javad Mousavi¹, Jaap H van Dieën², Dennis E Anderson³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: sjmousavi@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³ Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 30594766
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2018.12.010

Abstract

Low back pain is a complex, multifactorial, and heterogeneous condition, but this does not make it an exception in medicine. Management of low back pain based on a mechanistic approach and developing more effective multidisciplinary treatment is possible and would finally implement the biopsychosocial model of care.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Chronic Pain / therapy
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Inflammation
Low Back Pain / etiology*
Low Back Pain / psychology
Low Back Pain / therapy*
Pain Management / methods*
Treatment Outcome