Tag: Back Pain
The Neck Disability Index: a study of reliability and validity.
The Neck Disability Index (NDI) was developed by Vernon and Mior in the late 1980’s and published in 1991. It remains the most widely used outcome instrument for the assessment of patients with neck related disorders. The NDI was developed to provide an objective measure to assess activities of daily living (ADL) in patients with […]
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1987 Volvo award in clinical sciences. A new clinical model for the treatment of low-back pain.
This classic paper published by Dr. Gordon Waddell in 1987 has been cited over 1577 times. The paper is not a study, but rather a comprehensive review of the literature from the 1970’s and 1980’s looking at the trend of increasing rates of disability associated with low back pain. Dr. Waddell used this information to […]
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Magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine in people without back pain.
This study published in 1994 was similar to that of one of the most widely cited studies looking at the presence of abnormal findings on MRI scans in asymptomatic patients by Boden et al (1990). Jensen et al evaluated the lumbar MRI scans of 98 asymptomatic volunteers and 27 patients that were symptomatic with low […]
