A Prospective Study of Centralization of Lumbar and Referred Pain

Ronald Donelson, Charles N. Aprill, Robert L. Medcalf, William D. Grant

Spine · 1997 · 272 citations · 31 references

Abstract

The McKenzie assessment process reliably differentiated discogenic from nondiscogenic pain (P < 0.001) as well as competent from an incompetent anulus (P < 0.042) in symptomatic discs and was superior to magnetic resonance imaging in distinguishing painful from nonpainful discs.

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