Paulo H. Ferreira

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Damian Santomauro, Amirali Aali, Yohannes Abate et al. · The Lancet · 2024 · 4.4K citations · Full text

Public Health, Health Sciences, Epidemiologic Methods +15

Global, regional, and national burden of low back pain, 1990–2020, its attributable risk factors, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Manuela L. Ferreira, Katie de Luca, Jaimie D Steinmetz et al. · The Lancet Rheumatology · 2023 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery +16

Low back pain: a call for action

Rachelle Buchbinder, Maurits W. van Tulder, Birgitta Öberg et al. · The Lancet · 2018 · 1.3K citations · Full text

Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Medicine +10

Comparison of general exercise, motor control exercise and spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain: A randomized trial

Manuela L. Ferreira, Paulo H. Ferreira, Jane Latimer et al. · Pain · 2007 · 452 citations

Medicine, Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine +15

Changes in recruitment of the abdominal muscles in people with low back pain: ultrasound measurement of muscle activity.

Paulo H. Ferreira, Manuela L. Ferreira, Paul W. Hodges · PubMed · 2004 · 442 citations

Medicine, Anatomy, Rehabilitation Medicine +17