Chronic low back pain and depression
โ Scribed by David C. Garron; Frank Leavitt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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## Abstract ## Objective In older adults, major depressive disorder (MDD) and chronic low back pain (CLBP) are common and mutually exacerbating. We predicted that duloxetine pharmacotherapy and Depression and Pain Care Management (DPCM) would result in (1) significant improvement in MDD and CLBP a
Treated chronic low back pain patients (N = 102) in a university hospital clinic. Ss were given the EPI, the Recent LIfe Changes Questionnaire, and the Locus of Control Scale in order to isolate the principal dimensions of emotional disturbance in such patients and to see whether derived dimensions
a specific pathophysiologic mechanism, such as hernia nucleus pulposus (HNP), infection, inflammation, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture or tumor. Only in about 10% of the patients can specific underlying diseases be identified . The vast majority of patients (up to 90%) are labeled as ha