Sökning: "chronic low back pain"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden chronic low back pain.

1. 21. A quarter century perspective on low back pain : a longitudinal study

   Författare :Carina Bildt Thorbjörnsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Interactions; occupational; non-occupational; interview method; retrospective; reliability; gender; chronic and incident; panel study; non-response;

   Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is analyses of associations between occupational and non-occupational conditions on the one hand, and low back pain on the other. Methodological aspects of assessment of information about psychosocial working conditions, as well as of consequences of attrition in longitudinal studies, have also been examined. LÄS MER

3. 22. Pain drawings in the evaluation of lumbar disc-related pain

   Författare :Donna D Ohnmeiss; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :pain drawings; low back pain; discography; intervertebral disc; clinical pain provocation; discrelated pain; sensation quality; diagnostic evaluation; repeatability; chronic pain; lumbar spine;

   Sammanfattning : Pain drawings have been used in a variety of settings to investigate pain, including low back pain. The drawings allow a rapidly completed assessment that have several potential applications including psychological screening tool, documenting pain location, and evaluating pain quality. LÄS MER

4. 23. Identification of subgroups in experimental and chronic pain : Sensory, emotional and evaluative aspects

   Författare :Ragnhild Raak; Bengt H. Sjölund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Sammanfattning : One hundred and two healthy subjects, 32 fibromyalgia patients and 12 chronic low back pain patients were included in the study. Quantitative sensory tests were performed to identify thermal hyperalgesia in the fibromyalgia group and to compare the results with those in healthy pain-free subjects. LÄS MER

5. 24. Physiotherapeutic rehabilitation and lumbar fusion surgery

   Författare :Allan Abbott; Rune Hedlund; Raija Tyni-Lenné; Elisabeth Skargren; Sweden Stockholm Karolinska Institutet Intervention and Technology Department of Clinical Sciences; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Biopsychosocial factors; chronic low back pain; disability; health related quality of life; ICF; mediation; outcome prediction; rehabilitation; spinal fusion; Biopsychosocial factors; chronic low back pain; disability; spinal fusion; health related quality of life; ICF; mediation; outcome prediction; rehabilitation;

   Sammanfattning : Over the last two decades, the economic costs and rates of lumbar fusion surgery for chronic low back pain has risen dramatically in western industrialized countries. Data from the Swedish National Spine Register suggest that 25% of patients experience unimproved pain and up to 40% are not satisfied with the outcome of lumbar fusion surgery. LÄS MER

7. 25. Diagnostic accuracy of the clinical examination compared to available reference standards in chronic low back pain patients

   Författare :Mark Laslett; Gunnar Németh; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : It is often stated that most cases of persistent low back pain are diagnostically indeterminate. Diagnostic accuracy estimates are obtained by comparing the results of clinical tests with diagnostic reference standards. Although data is available from past research, most commonly used clinical tests have not been evaluated in validity studies. LÄS MER