Low Back Pain Flares: How do They Differ From an Increase in Pain?

Discussion: These findings highlight that when individuals with LBP consider they have a flare, they do not always have greater than average pain, but have worse psychosocial features. This emphasizes that flare has broader dimensions than pain alone. Consideration of flare according to broad dimensions is important when investigating symptom fluctuations across different LBP trajectories.
Source: The Clinical Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research