Colin Kopes-Kerr, MD
6444 Timber Springs Drive
Santa Rosa CA 95409
E-mail: cpkerr@nni.com
Kopes-eticHealth.com:
A New Dawn for Health Care Information
Supplemental Materials for FP Revolution:
Volume 1 Number 5 (January 29, 2007)
Canadian Guideline for Managing Osteoarthritis:
[American Journal of Medicine 2005; 118: 1268: Appendix 1]
Volume 1 Number 3 (January 15, 2007)
AUA BPH Symptom Score:
Low Back Pain Treatment Evidence Table:
| Effectiveness | Acute low back pain | Chronic low back pain |
| Beneficial | Advice to stay active, NSAIDs | Exercise therapy, intensive multidisciplinary treatment programs |
| Trade off | Muscle relaxants | Muscle relaxants |
| Likely to be beneficial | Spinal manipulation, behavior therapy, multidisciplinary treatment | Analgesics, acupuncture, antidepressants, back schools, behavior therapy, NSAIDs, spinal manipulation |
| Unknown | Analgesics, acupuncture, back schools, epidural steroid injections, lumbar supports, massage, multidisciplinary treatment, TENS, traction, temperature treatments, electromyographical biofeedback | Epidural steroid injections, EMG biofeedback, lumbar supports, massage, TENS, traction, local injections |
| Unlikely to be beneficial | Specific back exercises | |
| Ineffective or harmful | Bed rest | Facet joint injections |
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