Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2007 , Vol 53 , Num 2

Treatment Guidelines in Back Pai

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1 İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul

Back is one of the most important areas of the body. The pain of this area results from different reasons. Back pain is classified as local, radicular, referred and diffuse according to location of the pain. Although the back pain is a symptom the diagnosis of it has to do correctly. After the diagnosis is to be corrected appropriate treatment will reach to the success. If there are some guidelines and rules the treatment of the patients will be easy. As a result, an efficient treatment will be realized. In this paper, the reasons of the back pain, mechanical pain diagnosis guidelines and treatment methods with therapy guideline examples were aimed.  

Keywords : Back pain, mechanical pain, diagnosis and treatment guideline