Research Grant
[Cite as http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/253634]Researchers: Prof Chris Maher (Principal investigator) , Jane Bleasel , Prof Kathryn Refshauge , Prof Rob Herbert , Prof Robert Cumming
Brief description All current clinical practice guidelines for the management of acute low back pain (LBP) agree that acute LBP has an excellent prognosis with most cases recovering within 4-6 weeks. However, the information on prognosis is contradictory and in fact chronic low back pain could develop in as many as 56% of those with acute low back pain. There is also agreement among the guidelines that the rare cases of serious disease (eg cancer) can be detected with a routine clinical examination but no study has evaluated the accuracy of the complete clinical assessment, and there is only limited evidence on components of the clinical assessment. We will therefore investigate the 1 year prognosis of LBP and the accuracy of the clinical assessment for detecting serious disease in the back pain population. Our study will provide the first reliable estimates of prognosis of acute LBP and the accuracy of widely recommended clinical assessment procedures and thereby allow appropriate allocation of funds to this enormous problem.
Funding Amount $AUD 448,300.00
Funding Scheme NHMRC Project Grants
Notes Standard Project Grant
- PURL : http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/253634
- nhmrc : 253634