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. 2018 Jun 9;391(10137):2384-2388.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30488-4. Epub 2018 Mar 21.

Low back pain: a call for action

Rachelle Buchbinder  1 , Maurits van Tulder  2 , Birgitta Öberg  3 , Lucíola Menezes Costa  4 , Anthony Woolf  5 , Mark Schoene  6 , Peter Croft  7 ; Lancet Low Back Pain Series Working Group
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Low back pain: a call for action

Rachelle Buchbinder et al. Lancet. .
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Abstract

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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  • Low back pain: a major global challenge.
    Clark S, Horton R. Clark S, et al. Lancet. 2018 Jun 9;391(10137):2302. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30725-6. Epub 2018 Mar 21. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 29573869 No abstract available.
  • Low back pain.
    Nguyen C, Lefèvre-Colau MM, Kennedy DJ, Schneider BJ, Rannou F. Nguyen C, et al. Lancet. 2018 Dec 15;392(10164):2547. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32187-1. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 30563633 No abstract available.
  • Low back pain.
    Germon T, Clifford D, Lee W, Hobart J. Germon T, et al. Lancet. 2018 Dec 15;392(10164):2547. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32220-7. Lancet. 2018. PMID: 30563634 No abstract available.
  • Lessons from The Lancet Low Back Pain Series media strategy.
    O'Keeffe M, Maher CG, Rozbroj T, Schoene M, Buchbinder R. O'Keeffe M, et al. Lancet. 2020 Nov 14;396(10262):1560-1561. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32325-4. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33189175 No abstract available.

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