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P Beattie, PhD, PT, OCS, is Physical Therapist, Department of Rehabilitation Services, University Hospital, University of New Mexico, 2211 Lomas NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131

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Numerous physical therapy treatments have been advocated for the patient with low back pain (LBP). An important barrier to determining the effectiveness of these treatments is the lack of a valid classification system for patient's with LBP. Binkley et al have presented important and timely data that will assist clinicians and researchers toward overcoming this barrier. Several "expert" orthopedic therapists have agreed on categories by which to classify patients and on the essential findings that must be present for this classification. In their conclusions, the authors caution us that in many of the classes, the "specific pathological or anatomical cause of LBP cannot be validated with current diagnostic procedures."...

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