Low back pain: A twentieth century health care enigma

被引:378
作者
Waddell, G
机构
[1] Glasgow Nuffield Hospital, Glasgow
[2] Glasgow Nuffield Hospital
关键词
acute; chronic; epidemiology; health care; history; low back pain; treatment;
D O I
10.1097/00007632-199612150-00002
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Despite greater knowledge, expertise, and health care resources for spinal pathologies, chronic disability resulting from nonspecific low back pain is rising exponentially in western society. Medical care certainly has not solved the everyday symptom of low back pain and even may be reinforcing and exacerbating the problem. An historic review shows that there is no change in the pathology or prevalence of low back pain: What has changed is our understanding and management. There are striking differences in health care for low back pain in the United States and the United Kingdom, although neither delivers the kind of care recommended by recent evidence-based guidelines. Medical care for low back pain in the United States is specialist-oriented, of high technology, and of high cost, but 40% of American patients seek chiropractic care for low back pain instead. National Health Service care for low back pain in the United Kingdom is underfunded, too little and too late, and 55% of British patients pay for private therapy instead. Despite the different health care systems, treat ment availability, and costs, there seems to be little difference in clinical outcomes or the social impact of low hack pain in the two countries. There is growing dissatisfaction with health care for low back pain on both sides of the Atlantic. Future health care for patients with nonspecific low back pain should be designed to meet their specific needs.
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页码:2820 / 2825
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