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Vol. 72, No. 4, April 1992, pp. 270-271
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Clinical Perspectives

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Lance Twomey

L Twomey, PhD, MAPA, MPAA, is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Physiotherapy, Division of Academic Affairs, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6001, Australia

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

This thoughtful, carefully constructed article is in reality a search for the Holy Grail. It seeks by intellectual persuasion to convince us that there is a mechanism by means of which the current pandemic of low back pain (LBP) can be understood, classified, ordered, and finally managed. Like all similar quests, the very breadth and scope of the problem means that it is ultimately bound for failure. However, the quest itself is important, and, in this article, DeRosa and Porterfield force the readers to confront issues and situations of consequence and thus to question current approaches to the conservative treatment of LBP.

In considering the epidemiology of this condition, the authors clearly distinguish between LBP (which they see as treatable, particularly in the acute phase) and low back disability....


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