Psychosocial, musculoskeletal and somatoform comorbidity in patients with chronic low back pain: original results from the Dutch Transition Project

Abstract

General practitioners should consider all the musculoskeletal symptoms when caring for patients with chronic LBP. Rather than systematically screening for specific psychological, social or somatoform disorders, they should consider with the patient how LBP and any type of potential comorbidity interfere with his/her daily functioning.