Causal assessment of occupational lifting and low back pain: results of a systematic review.

Background Context: Low back pain (LBP) is a disorder that commonly affects the working population, resulting in disability, health-care utilization, and a heavy socioeconomic burden. Although the etiology of LBP remains uncertain, occupational activities have been implicated. Evaluating these potentially causal relationships requires a methodologically rigorous approach.

Causal assessment of occupational carrying and low back pain: results of a systematic review.

Background Context: Occupational low back pain (LBP) is a common musculoskeletal disorder that results in high healthcare use and a heavy societal burden from morbidity and medical costs. The etiology of LBP is unclear, although numerous physical activities in the workplace have been implicated in its development. Determining the causal relationship between LBP and specific occupational activities requires a rigorous methodological approach.

Causal assessment of occupational bending or twisting and low back pain: results of a systematic review.

Background Context: Low back pain (LBP) is a common musculoskeletal disorder that often occurs in the working-age population. Although numerous physical activities have been implicated in its etiology, determining causation remains challenging and requires a methodologically rigorous approach.

Purpose: To conduct a systematic review focused on establishing a causal relationship between occupational bending or twisting and LBP.

The reliability of determining "leg dominant pain".

Background Context: Patients with back dominant pain generally have a worse prognosis after spine surgery when compared with patients with leg dominant pain. Despite the importance of determining whether patients with lumbar spine pain have back or leg dominant pain as a predictor for success after decompression surgery, there are limited data on the reliability of methods for doing so.

Purpose: To assess the test-retest reliability of a patient's ability to describe whether their lumbar spine pain is leg or back dominant using standardized questions.

Evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain with physical activity, smoking cessation, and weight loss.

The management of chronic low back pain (CLBP) has proven to be very challenging in North America, as evidenced by its mounting socioeconomic burden. Choosing among available nonsurgical therapies can be overwhelming for many stakeholders, including patients, health providers, policy makers, and third-party payers. Although all parties share a common goal and wish to use limited health-care resources to support interventions most likely to result in clinically meaningful improvements, there is often uncertainty about the most appropriate intervention for a particular patient.

The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine: research trends over time and publication rates.

Study Design And Objectives: A retrospective review was conducted to assess trends in research selected for podium presentation at ISSLS.

Summary Of Background Data: Abstracts of past papers presented to ISSLS provide quantified documentation of trends in research as well as insight into future directions.

Methods: A systematic review of abstracts of research presented was performed.

Magnetic resonance imaging 20 years after anterior lumbar interbody fusion.

Study Design: A 20-year magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional outcome follow-up study was performed on patients who had undergone anterior lumbar interbody fusion.

Objectives: The objectives of the present study are to determine whether or not degeneration is related to adjacent level fusion and the clinical significance of this degeneration.

Summary Of Background Data: There are concerns that lumbar fusion leads to increase stress at the adjacent levels.