Background: To better standardize clinical and epidemiological studies about the
prevalence, risk factors, prognosis, impact and treatment of chronic low back pain, a …

Abstract The National Institutes of Health (NIH) minimum dataset for chronic low back pain
(CLBP) was developed in response to the challenge of standardizing measurements across …

Study Design. Validation study with cross-sectional and longitudinal measurements.
Objective. To translate the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-minimal dataset for clinical …

Study Design. A modified Delphi study conducted with 28 experts in back pain research from
12 countries. Objective. To identify standardized definitions of low back pain that could be …

Study Design. Systematic review. Objectives. To describe the available cross-cultural
adaptations of low back pain (LBP) self-report outcome measures and the psychometric …

Various health professionals have attempted to classify low back pain (LBP) subgroups and
have developed several LBP classification systems. Knowing that culture has an effect on …

Background Low back pain (LBP) is a major public health problem and the identification of
individuals at risk of persistent LBP poses substantial challenges to clinical management …

Note fr'5ym PTJ's Editor in Chief: Both investigators and readers get frustrated reading
research on low back pain because of different definitions of “chronic” and different outcome …

Low back pain is a major cause of morbidity in high-, middle-and low-income countries, yet
to date it has been relatively under-prioritised and under-funded. One important reason may …

Background Assessed dimensions of low back pain (LBP) vary in prevalence studies. This
may explain the heterogeneity in frequency estimates. To standardize definitions of LBP, an …