TY - JOUR
T1 - Low back pain
T2 - a call for action
AU - Buchbinder, Rachelle
AU - van Tulder, Maurits
AU - Öberg, Birgitta
AU - Costa, Lucíola Menezes
AU - Woolf, Anthony
AU - Schoene, Mark
AU - Croft, Peter
AU - on behalf of the Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group
PY - 2018/6/9
Y1 - 2018/6/9
N2 - Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exist, the effects will probably be more extreme in these regions. Most low back pain is unrelated to specific identifiable spinal abnormalities, and our Viewpoint, the third paper in this Lancet Series,2,3 is a call for action on this global problem of low back pain.
AB - Low back pain is the leading worldwide cause of years lost to disability and its burden is growing alongside the increasing and ageing population.1 Because these population shifts are more rapid in low-income and middle-income countries, where adequate resources to address the problem might not exist, the effects will probably be more extreme in these regions. Most low back pain is unrelated to specific identifiable spinal abnormalities, and our Viewpoint, the third paper in this Lancet Series,2,3 is a call for action on this global problem of low back pain.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30488-4
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30488-4
M3 - Comment / Debate
AN - SCOPUS:85044169067
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 391
SP - 2384
EP - 2388
JO - The Lancet
JF - The Lancet
IS - 10137
ER -