http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22744654

Neurology. 2012 Jun 27. [Epub ahead of print]

Neglect your back to control your pain?

Birklein F, Maihöfner C.

Source

From the Department of Neurology (F.B.), University Medical Centre, Mainz; and Department of Neurology (C.M.), Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.

Abstract

Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is among the most common disorders leading to inability to work in industrialized countries, despite (or because of?) an armada of doctors trying to treat it. Ten years ago, anyone saying that these patients "neglect" the back would have been considered crazy; we were convinced that the opposite was the case, that they concentrate on their back and are highly aware of their pain.