Cost-Utility Analysis of Physiotherapy Treatment Compared With Physiotherapy Advice in Low Back Pain (2006)
Journal Article
Rivero-Arias, O., Gray, A., Frost, H., Lamb, S. E., & Stewart-Brown, S. (2006). Cost-Utility Analysis of Physiotherapy Treatment Compared With Physiotherapy Advice in Low Back Pain. Spine, 31(12), 1381-1387. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.brs.0000218486.13659.d5

STUDY DESIGN:
Economic evaluation alongside a pragmatic multicenter randomized controlled trial from the National Health Service (NHS) and societal perspective.
OBJECTIVE:
To perform a cost-utility analysis of routine physiotherapy treatment compa... Read More about Cost-Utility Analysis of Physiotherapy Treatment Compared With Physiotherapy Advice in Low Back Pain.

Responsiveness of Objective, Disease-Specific, and Generic Outcome Measures in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: An Assessment for Improving, Stable, and Deteriorating Patients (2006)
Journal Article
Campbell, H., Rivero-Arias, O., Johnston, K., Gray, A., Fairbank, J., & Frost, H. (2006). Responsiveness of Objective, Disease-Specific, and Generic Outcome Measures in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: An Assessment for Improving, Stable, and Deteriorating Patients. Spine, 31(7), 815-822. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.brs.0000207257.64215.03

STUDY DESIGN:
Analysis of outcome data collected prospectively from 250 patients recruited to the UK Spine Stabilization Trial.
OBJECTIVES:
To compare the responsiveness of the Shuttle Walking Test (SWT), which is an objective outcome measure, wit... Read More about Responsiveness of Objective, Disease-Specific, and Generic Outcome Measures in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: An Assessment for Improving, Stable, and Deteriorating Patients.

Acupressure for low back pain (2006)
Journal Article
Frost, H., & Stewart-Brown, S. (2006). Acupressure for low back pain. BMJ, 332(7543), 680-681. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7543.680

First paragraph:
Disability associated with low back pain is an important public health problem. Clinical trials carried out in the Western world show conventional treatment to have, at best, modest effects,1–3 and international guidelines agree onl... Read More about Acupressure for low back pain.

Surgical Stabilization of the Spine Improved Disability Slightly More Than an Intensive Rehabilitation Program in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (2006)
Journal Article
Fairbank, J., Frost, H., Wilson-MacDonald, J., Yu, L., Barker, K., & Collins, R. (2006). Surgical Stabilization of the Spine Improved Disability Slightly More Than an Intensive Rehabilitation Program in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume, 88(2), 453. https://doi.org/10.2106/jbjs.8802.ebo2

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