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Vol. 72, No. 4, April 1992, pp. 271-272
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Carl P DeRosa and James A Porterfield

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

Although comparing our quest for clinical answers to the search for the Holy Grail never occurred to us, we are appreciative of Dr Twomey elevating the discourse to such a level. Indeed, back pain has become more than a quest with confounding answers. It has also become big business. Over the past several years, learning has had to come from not only the academic texts and journals, but also from those demanding answers and accountability—the patients themselves and the parties responsible for paying the bills. Public scrutiny always warrants an inventory. Could the myriad of assessment and treatment techniques really be so disparate? Coincident with the rapidly changing environment of health care then was a feeling that various schools of thought were less dissimilar than they cared to admit.

These demands, questions, and observations invite rethinking the physical therapy approach toward low back pain....


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