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Diagnosis and Treatment of Low-Back Pain Because of Paraspinous Muscle Spasm: A Physician Roundtable

Bill McCarberg, Gary Ruoff, Penny Tenzer-Iglesias, A. Weil

Pain Medicine · 2011 · 17 citations · 11 references

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Early, active management of acute low-back symptoms during the initial onset may lead to better patient outcomes, reducing related pain and disability and, possibly, preventing progression to chronicity.

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Roger Chou, Amir Qaseem, Vincenza Snow et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine · 2007 · 2.7K citations

Back Pain Prevalence and Visit Rates

Richard A. Deyo, Sohail K. Mirza, Brook I. Martin · Spine · 2006 · 968 citations

Estimates and Patterns of Direct Health Care Expenditures Among Individuals With Back Pain in the United States

Xuemei Luo, Ricardo Pietrobon, Shawn X. Sun et al. · Spine · 2003 · 843 citations

The Outcomes and Costs of Care for Acute Low Back Pain among Patients Seen by Primary Care Practitioners, Chiropractors, and Orthopedic Surgeons

Timothy S. Carey, Joanne M. Garrett, Anne Jackman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1995 · 567 citations · Full text

Real-world practice patterns, health-care utilization, and costs in patients with low back pain: the long road to guideline-concordant care

Jasmina I. Ivanova, Howard G. Birnbaum, M. Schiller et al. · The Spine Journal · 2011 · 305 citations

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