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he vision of back pain in the mass media and in medical journals is all too often grim and foreboding. Journalists and even researchers frequently apply adjectives such as "agonizing," "unbearable," and "excruciating," and describe back pain in the context of a painful long-term degenerative process that poses major diagnostic and treatment challenges.Numerous studies have demonstrated that the general public, along with back pain patients, have erroneous views of the nature and course of back pain. And healthcare providers of every stripe often follow suit, helping to turn transient symptoms into disabling medical conditions.But everyone should remind themselves that new episodes of low back pain typically have a brief duration and a highly favorable prognosis-particularly outside of medical settings. A groundbreaking new study from Australia demonstrates that back pain in the community often has a prognosis so favorable it simply doesn't warrant any medical or healthcare interventions.

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Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)