Clinical Review
Lumbar Back Pain: From the Common to the Critical
Emergency Medicine. 2009 May;41(5):14-21
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William Alley, MD, and Barry Knapp, MD, FACEP
Emergency department experience teaches that most episodes of low back pain, as severe and temporarily disabling as they may be, are not manifestations of serious pathology-but you cannot afford to miss the ones that are. The authors explain how to make your assessment both sensitive and specific every time.