These draft guidelines cut through the unfounded professional attitudes to back pain including: bogus diagnoses, illegitimate statements about causation, alarmist prognoses, prognoses based on bio mechanical models and so on. Application of the guidelines should see greater accuracy of medical care and reductions in liability exposure, but only if they are used.
Evidence from:
N Bogduk. Draft- Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines For The Management Of Acute Low Back Pain
Table 6.1 of the draft guidelines is reproduced in the Radar report. It details which factors really do influence prognosis.
The Radar report is available to subscribers: