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Back Pain in Children and Adolescents

All children with new-onset back pain and especially children below the age of 10 years need a workup to rule out a serious medical condition Infections, solid tumors, physical trauma, […]

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Supported Self-Management of Back Pain from a Clinician’s Perspective

Back pain is the most prevalent and, therefore, most important chronic pain condition across the world with clinical, social, economic, and public health implications [1]. Back pain tends to recur […]

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Disparities in Back Pain

Health Disparity and Health Equity Health disparity is defined as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with economic, social, or environmental disadvantage” [40]. Health equity is […]

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Exercise and Chronic Low Back Pain

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is among the most common clinical, social, economic, and public health problems of all chronic pain disorders across the world [1]. In addition to its […]

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Low Back Pain During Childhood and Adolescence

Recent years of research have uncovered important information about the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of children and adolescents with back pain. This fact sheet presents the state of the […]

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Pathophysiological Assessment of Non-Specific Back Pain

Please click on the link to the PDF file for access to this fact sheet.

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Neck Pain

THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM Neck pain is a global problem Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal conditions on a global scale [35]. Neck pain has been […]

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Environmental Contributors to Back Pain

Disruptions to sleep may make the experience of back pain worse.  Sleep is increasingly deemed to be an essential component to general health and wellbeing. Growing evidence also suggests that […]

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Neurobiological Mechanisms Contributing to Back Pain

There is no single pathophysiological mechanism for back pain. All of the mechanisms listed below have some empirical support for their role in the experience of back pain and have […]

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The Global Burden of Low Back Pain

Low back pain is a common global problem Global Burden of Disease studies have defined low back pain (LBP) as “pain in the area on the posterior aspect of the […]

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