Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire into Persian language and the assessment of reliability and validity in patients with chronic low back pain.

Background: Chronic low back pain (LBP) causes some neuroplastic changes in the brain, which result in body perception impairment. The Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire (FreBAQ) is a suggested tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of back perception in people with LBP. The aim of this study is to translate and cross culturally adapt the FreBAQ into Persian language and to assess its reliability and validity in patients with chronic LBP (CLBP).

The effect of dry needling on the radiating pain in subjects with discogenic low-back pain: A randomized control trial.

Background: Disk herniation is the most common cause of radiating low back pain (LBP) in subjects under 60 years of age. The present study aims to compare the effect of dry needling (DN) and a standard conservative approach on the pain and function in subjects with discogenic radiating LBP.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-eight subjects with discogenic radicular LBP were screened and randomized into control (Standard physical therapy, = 29) and experimental group (Standard physical therapy and DN, = 29).

Cultural adaptation and validation of the Persian version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) outcome measure.

Objective: To translate and validate the Persian version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) outcome measure (Persian DASH).

Design: Cultural translation and psychometric testing.

Setting: Outpatient departments of orthopaedics surgery, primary care settings, rehabilitation medicine and physical therapy.

Translation and validation study of the Iranian versions of the Neck Disability Index and the Neck Pain and Disability Scale.

Study Design: Cultural translation and psychometric testing.

Objective: To translate and validate the Iranian versions of the Neck Disability Index (NDI-IR) and the Neck Pain and Disability Scale (NPDS-IR).

Summary Of Background Data: The widely used the NDI and the NPDS scales have not been translated and validated for Persian-speaking patients with neck pain.