The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
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Randomized Controlled Trial
One-year prognosis in sick-listed low back pain patients with and without radiculopathy. Prognostic factors influencing pain and disability.
Previous research has documented various psychosocial risk factors with influence on outcome in low back pain (LBP) patients, but the value of clinical predictors has been less well documented. ⋯ Disability and pain at 1 year were associated with baseline disability and pain, diffuse tenderness, worrying and health anxiety, compensation claim, fear avoidance, and baseline exercise habits. Only in patients with verified nerve root affection, older age, and restrained alcohol seemed to play a role. The multivariate models were insufficient in predicting disability and pain, partly because disability and pain were also strongly associated with return to work.