[PDF] Top 20 Management of low back pain in Ghana : a survey of self reported practice

... Combining treatment strategies is very common in physiotherapy management (Casserley-Feeney et al., 2008); however combining five in each treatment session raises concern and maybe another cause for over-long ... See full document

... Results: Of the 880 chiropractors approached, 137 were deemed ineligible to participate, mostly because they were not currently practising, or mail was returned to sender. We received completed questionnaires from 274 ... See full document

... According to experience, chiropractic treatment can often be divided into two phases: Initial treatment of the prob- lem to attempt to bring it back into its pre-clinical or max- imum improvement status, and ... See full document

... The other answers that deviated from the expected re- sponses were all in favour of referring for a second opin- ion rather than attempting further treatment or advising supplementary external treatment. In fact, ... See full document

... the management of low sectional survey was conducted in major physiotherapy out-patient departments of Karachi covering major government, semi government and private sector ...Our survey ... See full document

... percent reported typically seeing one to three CLBP clients, and 40% estimated seeing between three and ...each low back pain patient (Pensri et ...countries reported an average of less ... See full document

... no pain, 86% had minimal or no disability at one year follow-up; however, only 72% had completely recovered ...a survey was done on Australian general practice physicians (GP) about the application ... See full document

... Low-back pain (LBP), e.g. pain in the lumbosacral area of the spine, is one of the most prevalent health problems in industrialized countries, engendering significant disabil- ity and ... See full document

... Although stakeholder involvement, applicability, and edi- torial independence should be addressed during guide- line development, the AGREE instrument and literature do not explicitly describe ways to effectively address ... See full document

... on low back pain/leg pain, disability, and sick-leave, no significant differences emerged between the OMT and McK- enzie groups in pain and disability scores at any follow-up point, ... See full document

... administered pain relief during labor in the preceding 4 weeks, and systemic opioids were the most commonly administered ...for pain relief agents in laboring ...their practice of counseling and ... See full document

... on self-management (SM) support programmes in chronic low back pain (CLBP) have failed to show clinically meaningful treatment benefit, which potentially highlights lack of research on ... See full document

... Low back pain affects millions of people and is one of the most common maladies prompting patients to seek medical ...that back pain only burdens adults: the yearly incidence during ... See full document

... of low back pain was ...functioning, pain and general health in workers with low back pain was signifi- cantly lower than in other ...with low back ... See full document

... of low back pain was ...of pain, past treatments and pre-pain scores (Table 1). Mean pain level at baseline was ...in pain was negatively correlated with initial ... See full document

... of pain sensitivity were used is ...of pain sensitivity, then we would have expected an associa- tion in the studies reporting these measures in the current ...the low prevalence of pain ... See full document

... For low back pain, a higher risk was found in male manual workers aged < 60 years (adjusted OR ...knee pain, higher education levels were associated with lower adjusted ORs in men aged ≥ 60 ... See full document

... As an Arabic version has not been developed with full cross- culture adaptation. We chose to translate the LBPR questionnaires into Arabic, as it is less costly and time consuming than generating a new measure, and to ... See full document

... isometric torque production is well-established in parti- cipants without pain [42] and groups of patients with LBP [43]. Participants were seated in the MedX machine with the stabilizing straps attached across ... See full document

... Out of 68 physicians assessed 54 were affected by work related musculoskeletal disorders giving an incidence of 79.41%. The results show that lower back, neck, lower leg and knee are mostly affected in physicians. ... See full document