Cross-cultural adaption of the Manniche questionnaire for German-speaking low back pain patients.

Objective: To develop and validate a cross-cultural version of the Manniche Low Back Pain Rating Scale (MRS) for use in German-speaking low back pain patients.

Background: Clinical intervention research in back pain would be enormously facilitated if a small number of relevant, patient-centred questionnaires became internationally used. MRS seems to be particularly suitable for cross-cultural adaptation due to its coverage of multidimensional back pain-specific health domains.