EditorialWhy is the recent research regarding non-specific pain so non-specific?
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Subgrouping patients with low back pain in primary care: Are we getting any better at it?
2011, Manual TherapyCitation Excerpt :The question of who (at an individual level) will do best with what treatment remains unanswered from most low back pain trials and thus there has been growing interest in researching approaches to subgrouping patients. Advocates highlight that we should not discount techniques or treatments that may be beneficial to some patients purely because we have failed to identify appropriate patient subgroups (McCarthy and Cairns, 2005). Some have suggested that the current system for grouping patients in trials testing treatments for low back pain is inadequate (McCarthy and Cairns, 2005).
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