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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 Papers
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is currently ranked as the 13th most frequent diagnosis in family practice (DynaMed Plus, 2017). Unfortunately, the severe nature of this pain leads providers to prescribe opiates for these patients. Opiates are effective for short term pain management but they have a significant side effect profile. Other forms of management for CLBP need to be identified and utilized. The purpose of this study was to determine the role exercise therapy plays in the treatment and management of patients with chronic low back pain.
A literature review was conducted in order to find high quality systematic …