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| Title |
Barriers and progress in the treatment of low back pain
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-9-108 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nadine E Foster |
| Abstract |
Low back pain is a common and costly condition and for most people is likely to be a recurrent problem throughout their lifetime. The management of patients with low back pain has been positively influenced by the rise in high quality clinical trials and systematic reviews in recent decades, and this body of evidence, synthesized in many clinical practice guidelines, has improved our knowledge about which treatments for low back pain are useful and which are not. For the largest group of patients, those with non-specific low back pain for whom a clear diagnosis cannot be given, the reality is that the treatments we have to offer tend to produce small effects, often only in the short term and none appear to effectively change long-term prognosis. This commentary summarizes the array of treatments currently available, notes the results of recent trials and guidelines and considers alternative approaches that may prove more valuable in achieving better patient outcomes in the future. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 27% |
| Spain | 1 | 9% |
| Australia | 1 | 9% |
| Mexico | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Norway | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 3 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 178 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 167 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 40 | 22% |
| Researcher | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 11% |
| Other | 17 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 15 | 8% |
| Other | 35 | 20% |
| Unknown | 33 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 67 | 38% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 24 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 3% |
| Sports and Recreations | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 25 | 14% |
| Unknown | 45 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2023.
All research outputs
#1,903,603
of 24,980,180 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,334
of 3,902 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,916
of 136,279 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#8
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,980,180 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,902 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.