Search Results - subject:"back pain"

A Danish Version of the Friendship Scale: Translation and Validation of a Brief Measure of Social Isolation

Kent, Peter; Hawthorne, Graeme; Kjaer, Per; Manniche, Claus - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 1, pp. 181-195

Low back pain (LBP) is common and social isolation is both a risk factor for poor recovery from LBP and a consequence …

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Factors influencing back pain treatment behaviour change

McClymont, Hoda; Gow, Jeff; Hume, Margee; Perry, Chad - In: Journal of Service Theory and Practice 25 (2015) 5, pp. 592-620

behaviours of back pain sufferers who use mainstream and/or complementary and alternative medicine (Edvardsson, 1998). That is … context of back pain. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative technique of convergent interviewing was used. It involved … conducting a series of long, initially rather unstructured interviews to converge on the important topic areas to the back pain …

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The Costs of Workplace Injuries and Work-Related Ill Health in The UK

Georgiou, Stavros; Thomson, Michael; Richardson-Owen, Anna - In: Ege Academic Review 9 (2009) 3, pp. 1035-1046

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) produces aggregate estimates of the costs to Britain of workplace accidents and work-related ill health which are used for a range of public policy purposes. HSE also produces estimates of the unit cost to society of individual workplace injury accidents...

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High Costs For Co-Occurrence of Neck/Shoulder and Low Back Disorders in Sweden

Liwing, Johan; Wiktorin, Christina; Grooten, Wilhelmus JA; … - In: Ege Academic Review 9 (2009) 3, pp. 1017-1033

Aim: The aim of the present study was to analyse if the localization of unspecific back disorders influenced the yearly direct and indirect costs during a five year period; 1996 to 2001. Methods: Based on the location and the recurrence of neck/shoulder disorders (NSD) and low back disorders...

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Governing healthcare: Finding meaning in a clinical practice guideline for the management of non-specific low back pain

Wilson, Nicky; Pope, Catherine; Roberts, Lisa; Crouch, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 102 (2014) C, pp. 138-145

-organisation of professional services for chronic non-specific low back pain. Adopting an interpretive approach, we seek to understand … the management of chronic non-specific low back pain within physician jurisdiction. We examine the emergence of this … within practice and professional organisations concerned with the management of non-specific low back pain. …

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Understanding the formation and influence of attitudes in patients' treatment choices for lower back pain: Testing the benefits of a hybrid choice model approach

Kløjgaard, Mirja Elisabeth; Hess, Stephane - In: Social Science & Medicine 114 (2014) C, pp. 138-150

such attitudes and their role in patients' treatment choices in the context of low back pain. We use stated choice data …

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Duloxetine Use in Chronic Low Back Pain: Treatment Patterns and Costs

Ivanova, Jasmina I.; Birnbaum, Howard G.; Kantor, Evan; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 7, pp. 595-609

back pain (CLBP) who are treated with duloxetine compared with those receiving other non-surgical treatments. Abstract … low back pain (LBP) diagnosis (per Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set [HEDIS] specifications …

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Cost of low back pain in Switzerland in 2005

Wieser, Simon; Horisberger, Bruno; Schmidhauser, Sara; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 12 (2011) 5, pp. 455-467

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Entropy of electromyography time series

Kaufman, Miron; Zurcher, Ulrich; Sung, Paul S. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 386 (2007) 2, pp. 698-707

entropy can be used to differentiate between healthy and low back pain individuals. …

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“Since You’re Asking. . . ”: Free Text Commentaries in an Epidemiological Study of Low Back Pain Consulters in Primary Care

Ong, Bie; Dunn, Kate; Croft, Peter - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 40 (2006) 4, pp. 651-659

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