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DG Greathouse, PhD, PT, is Colonel, US Army, and Chief, Army Medical Specialist Corps, HQDA, DASG-DB, 5109 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 20041-3258

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

I appreciate the opportunity to comment on Delitto and colleagues' article "A Treatment-Based Classification Approach to Low Back Syndrome: Identifying and Staging Patients for Conservative Treatment." I commend the authors for providing an examination approach for patients with acute low back syndrome (LBS) that leads to a classification system that specifically directs conservative management of LBS. The authors' approach has three levels of classification based on historical information, behavior of symptoms, and clinical signs. My comments are primarily directed to their first level of classification.

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