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Injury News Summaries of Recent Medical Research for Personal Injury Lawyers Index of Articles - Alpha Index | By Issue and Volume |
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| Volume 4, Issue 4 | January 1999 |
Post-traumatic causation must take into account both previous patterns of illness and the incidence of unprovoked symptoms
"Spontaneous" onset Low Back Pain is so common that post-traumatic proximate causation is frequently suspect
90% of sufferers from a new episode of Low Back Pain stop consulting by 3 months, but the majority still have pain at a year
Predictors of poor outcome:
1. depression
2. younger age
3. pain below the knee
4. associated disability
5. numbers of pain days
6. less educated
7. female
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