Four Variables Were Sufficient for Low Back Pain: Determining Which Patient-Reported Tools Pain and Disability Improvements.

To predict 30- and 180-day improvements in disability and pain for patients seeking physical therapy care for low back pain (LBP). Longitudinal cohort. Baseline assessment was completed by 259 patients with chief complaint of LBP, and the assessment includes psychosocial measures (Keele STarT Back Screening [SBST] and the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Yellow Flag [OSPRO-YF] tools), the Optimal Screening for Prediction of Referral and Outcome Review of Symptoms (OSPRO-ROS) and the Review of Symptoms Plus (OSPRO-ROS+) tools, the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), and the National Institute of Health Chronic Pain Criteria (NIH-CP).

Effects of manual therapy and exercise targeting the hips in patients with low-back pain-A randomized controlled trial.

Rationale: The benefits of providing manual therapy and exercise targeting the hips in individuals with mechanical low-back pain (LBP) are not well established.

Objectives: The objective in this study is to determine whether a formal prescriptive treatment protocol for the hips improves outcomes in patients with a primary complaint of mechanical LBP.

Methods: Eighty-four (84) subjects (50 males, 46.