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Exercise Therapy For Chronic Low Back Pain, Jeanmarie Dahl
Exercise Therapy For Chronic Low Back Pain, Jeanmarie Dahl
Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is currently ranked as the 13th most frequent diagnosis in family practice (DynaMedPlus, 2017). The severe nature of the pain in this condition often leads providers to prescribe narcotics. While effective in the short term, opiates have significant side effects when used chronically. Other forms of management for CLBP need to be identified and utilized. The purpose of this review was to determine the role exercise therapy plays in the management of CLBP.
Four databases were searched in order to find high quality systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and randomized controlled trials (RCT) looking at exercise therapy …