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Vol. 72, No. 4, April 1992, pp. 292-293
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Ingalill Lindström, Carl Öhlund, Claes Eek, Leif Wallin, Lars-Erik Peterson, Wilbert E Fordyce and Alf L Nachemson

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

We thank Dr Nelson for his commentary on our article. He noted that this study is one of the first studies to examine the philosophy of activity for the treatment of patients who have low back pain (LBP) and that the study was a randomized, controlled clinical trial, which he assumed to be the best type of experimental design to use when evaluating treatment effectiveness. Nelson believed that the study was destined for success because of the experimental design we used.

Traditional (ie, standard) care was given to the patients in the control group, whereas a controlled treatment was given to the patients in the activity group. The aim of this study was to compare the traditional care management and the graded activity program management.

The "Hawthorne effect" may have influenced the results of this study....


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The Effect of Graded Activity on Patients with Subacute Low Back Pain: A Randomized Prospective Clinical Study with an Operant-Conditioning Behavioral Approach
Ingalill Lindström, Carl Öhlund, Claes Eek, Leif Wallin, Lars-Erik Peterson, Wilbert E Fordyce, and Alf L Nachemson
Physical Therapy 1992 72: 279-290. [Abstract] [PDF]

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Physical Therapy 1992 72: 291-292. [Abstract] [PDF]





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