Lumbar Spine & Low Back Research
107 peer-reviewed studies, with plain-language summaries and links to the original research.
- Active and passive physical therapy in patients with chronic low back pain: a level I Bayesian network meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2025
- Efficacy of manual therapy on central sensitization in subjects with chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2025
- Cognitive functional therapy for chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2024
- Classification approaches for treating low back pain have small effects that are not clinically meaningful: a systematic review with meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2022
- Does motor control training improve pain and function in adults with symptomatic lumbar disc herniation? A systematic review and meta-analysis of 861 subjects in 16 trialsMeta-analysisSummary2022
- Exercise interventions for persistent non-specific low back pain: does matching outcomes to treatment targets make a difference? A systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- Is lumbar fusion necessary for chronic low back pain associated with degenerative disk disease? A meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on pain relief and function in patients with chronic low back pain: an individual participant data meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- Treating low back pain in athletes: a systematic review with meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2021
- To flex or not to flex? Is there a relationship between lumbar spine flexion during lifting and low back pain? A systematic review with meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2020
- Effectiveness of kinesio taping in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain: a systematic review with meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2019
- Neurophysiological pain-education for patients with chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary2018
- Which specific modes of exercise training are most effective for treating low back pain? Network meta-analysisMeta-analysisSummary
- Best exercise options for reducing pain and disability in adults with chronic low back pain: pilates, strength, core-based, and mind-body. A network meta-analysisMeta-analysis2022
- Associations between sum scores or combinations of MRI findings in the lumbar spine and low back pain-related outcomes: a systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2025
- The clinical course of acute, subacute and persistent low back pain: a systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2024
- Diagnostic utility of patient history, clinical examination, and screening tool data to identify neuropathic pain in low back related leg pain: a systematic review and narrative synthesisSystematic reviewSummary2020
- Does movement change when low back pain changes? A systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2020
- Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy of patient history, clinical findings, and physical tests in the diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosisSystematic reviewSummary2019
- What is usual care for low back pain? A systematic review of healthcare provided to patients with low back pain in family practice and emergency departmentsSystematic reviewSummary2019
- (Golden Oldie) Is a positive clinical outcome after exercise therapy for chronic non-specific low back pain contingent upon a corresponding improvement in the targeted aspect(s) of performance? A systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary2011
- Evidence and recommendations for the use of segmental motion testing for patients with LBP: a systematic reviewSystematic reviewSummary
- Analgesic effects of non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for low back pain: a systematic reviewSystematic review2025
- People with low back pain want clear, consistent and personalized information on prognosis, treatment options and self-management strategies: a systematic reviewSystematic review2019
- Effects of non-pharmacological interventions on sleep in chronic low back pain: a systematic reviewSystematic review
- Immediate physical therapy is beneficial for adolescent athletes with active lumbar spondylolysis: a multicentre RCTRCTSummary2025
- The effect of single and dual task balance exercises on balance in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis: a randomized controlled trialRCTSummary2023
- Effects of non-surgical decompression therapy in addition to routine physical therapy on pain, range of motion, endurance, functional disability and quality of life versus routine physical therapy alone in patients with lumbar radiculopathy: a randomized controlled trialRCTSummary2022
- Neurodynamic exercises provide no additional benefit to extension-oriented exercises in people with chronic low back-related leg pain and a directional preference: a randomized clinical trialRCTSummary2022
- The effect of repeated flexion-based exercises versus extension-based exercises on the clinical outcomes of patients with lumbar disk herniation surgery: a randomized clinical trialRCTSummary2022
- Cognitive functional therapy compared with a group-based exercise and education intervention for chronic low back pain: a multicentre randomised controlled trialRCTSummary
- Cognitive functional therapy compared with core exercise and manual therapy in patients with chronic low back pain: randomised controlled trialRCTSummary
- Randomized trial of general strength and conditioning versus motor control and manual therapy for chronic low back pain on physical and self-report outcomesRCTSummary
- Healthy lifestyle care vs guideline-based care for low back pain: a randomized clinical trialRCT2025
- Does a powerlifting inspired exercise programme better compliment pain education compared to bodyweight exercise for people with chronic low back pain? A multicentre, single-blind, randomised controlled trialRCT2022
- Exercise is medicine, but perhaps not for preventing low back pain: a randomized trial of exercise and education to prevent low back pain recurrenceRCT2021
- Changes in pain self-efficacy, coping skills and fear avoidance beliefs in a randomized controlled trial of yoga, physical therapy, and education for chronic low back painRCT
- Effect of intensive patient education vs placebo patient education on outcomes in patients with acute low back pain: a randomized clinical trialRCT
- Hypervigilance to pain may predict the transition from subacute to chronic back pain: a longitudinal observational studyCohort studySummary2025
- Persistence, not avoidance, is associated with low back pain: an observational cohort studyCohort studySummary2024
- Association of lumbar MRI findings with current and future back pain in a population-based cohort studyCohort study2021
- Disc degeneration of young low back pain patients: a prospective 30-year follow-up MRI studyCohort study2020
- MRI screening for lumbar bone stress injuries in young male cricket fast bowlers: a 15-year retrospective cohort studyCohort study
- Prospective back pain trajectories or retrospective recall: which tells us mostCohort study
- "It's hard to trust an individual, it's easier to trust an image": patients with low back pain want imaging as a means of coping with uncertaintyPrimary studySummary2025
- Modifying lumbar flexion pain thresholds in chronic low back pain through visual-proprioceptive manipulation with virtual reality: a cross-sectional studyCross-sectionalSummary2025
- Clinical relevance of combined treatment with exercise in patients with chronic low back painPrimary studySummary2024
- How do people with chronic low back pain perceive specific and general exercise? A mixed-methods studyPrimary studySummary2024
- Are the attitudes and beliefs of Australian exercise-based practitioners associated with their use of treatment modalities for chronic low back painPrimary studySummary2023
- Changes in pain catastrophizing, fear-avoidance beliefs and pain self-efficacy mediate changes in disability in chronic low back painPrimary studySummary2023
- Red flags to screen for vertebral fracture in people presenting with low back painPrimary studySummary2023
- Testing walking performance in patients with low back pain: will two minutes do instead of six?Primary studySummary2023
- Combining clinical exams can better predict lumbar spine radiographic instabilityPrimary studySummary2022
- Effect of diagnostic labelling on management intentions for non-specific low back pain: a randomised scenario-based experimentPrimary studySummary2022
- From protection to non-protection: a mixed methods study investigating movement, posture and recovery from disabling low back painPrimary studySummary2022
- Lateral bending differentiates early-stage spondylolysis from nonspecific low back pain in adolescentsPrimary studySummary2022
- Task-specific fear rather than general kinesiophobia assessment is associated with kinematic differences in chronic low back pain during lumbar flexion: a preliminary investigationPrimary studySummary2022
- Flexed lumbar spine postures are associated with greater strength and efficiency than lordotic postures during a maximal lift in pain-free individualsPrimary studySummary2021
- Isolated lumbar extension resistance exercise in limited range of motion for patients with lumbar radiculopathy and disk herniation: clinical outcome and influencing factorsPrimary studySummary2021
- Physiotherapists' attitudes and beliefs about low back pain influence their clinical decisions and advicePrimary studySummary2021
- Evaluation is treatment for low back painPrimary studySummary2020
- Understanding sciatica: illness and treatment beliefs in a lumbar radicular pain population. A qualitative interview studyPrimary studySummary2019
- (Golden Oldie) Accuracy of clinical tests in detecting disk herniation and nerve root compression in subjects with lumbar radicular symptomsPrimary studySummary2018
- Cognitive functional therapy: an integrated behavioral approach for the targeted management of disabling low back painPrimary studySummary2018
- Drivers of international variation in prevalence of disabling low back pain: findings from the Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability studyPrimary studySummary2018
- Impaired sleep predicts onset of low back pain and burnout symptoms: evidence from a three-wave studyPrimary studySummary2018
- Negative beliefs about back pain are associated with persistent, high levels of low back disability in community-based womenPrimary studySummary2018
- (Golden Oldie) Increasing recreational physical activity in patients with chronic low back painPrimary studySummary2017
- Rehabilitation management of low back pain, it's time to pull it all together!Primary studySummary2017
- Epidural steroid injection for lumbar disc herniation in NFL athletesPrimary studySummary2012
- An assessment of nonoperative management strategies in a herniated lumbar disc population: successes versus failuresPrimary studySummary
- Effects of adding a neurodynamic mobilization to motor control training in patients with lumbar radiculopathy due to disc herniationPrimary studySummary
- Effects of lifestyle interventions on the improvement of chronic non-specific low back painPrimary studySummary
- Induced lumbosacral radicular symptom referral patterns: a descriptive studyPrimary studySummary
- Association between lumbar spine kinematics and falls in patients with lumbar spinal stenosisPrimary study2025
- People strongly value physical therapies for low back pain over doing nothing, even when effects are very small: a discrete choice experimentPrimary study2025
- Subgrouping non-specific low back pain based on spinal marker trajectory data: an unsupervised machine learning approachPrimary study2025
- The identification of pain phenotypes in individuals with low back pain in response to dynamic resistance exercisePrimary study2025
- Association of aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity with chronic low back pain: population studyPrimary study2024
- Chronic low back pain and decreased physical activity are associated with social frailty in older adultsPrimary study2024
- A novel movement-evoked pain provocation test for older adults with persistent low back painPrimary study2023
- Mechanisms of education and graded sensorimotor retraining in people with chronic low back painPrimary study2023
- Negative language use of the physiotherapist in low back pain education impacts outcomesPrimary study2023
- Spinal manipulative therapy for nonspecific low back pain: does targeting a specific vertebral level matterPrimary study2023
- The attitudes and beliefs about manual therapy held by patients experiencing low back painPrimary study2023
- The impact of novel inflammation-preserving treatment towards lumbar disc herniationPrimary study2023
- Positive lifestyle behaviours and emotional health factors are associated with low back pain resiliencePrimary study2022
- What does the patient with back pain want? A comparison of patient preferences and physician assumptionsPrimary study2022
- Do not routinely offer imaging for uncomplicated low back painPrimary study2021
- Exercise therapy for chronic low back painPrimary study2021
- Impaired exercise-induced hypoalgesia in individuals reporting an increase in low back pain during acute exercisePrimary study2021
- Women with diastasis recti abdominis might have weaker abdominal muscles and more abdominal pain, but no higher prevalence of pelvic floor disorders, low back and pelvic girdle pain than women without diastasis recti abdominisPrimary study2021
- The process of creating and disseminating exercise programs by physical therapists for older adults with chronic back painPrimary study2020
- Can biomechanics research lead to more effective treatment of low back pain? A point-counterpoint debatePrimary study2019
- Embodying the illusion of a strong, fit back in people with chronic low back pain. A pilot proof-of-concept studyPrimary study2019
- Pain provocation and the energy cost of walking: a matched comparison study of older adults with and without chronic low back pain with radiculopathyPrimary study2019
- Different ways to balance the spine in sitting: muscle activity in specific postures differs between individuals with and without a history of back pain in sittingPrimary study2018
- Lumbar spine fusion: what is the evidence?Primary study2018
- Noninvasive measurement of sciatic nerve stiffness in patients with chronic low back related leg pain using shear wave elastographyPrimary study2018
- Advice to athletes with back pain, get active! Seriously?Primary study
- Benefits and harms of spinal manipulative therapy for treating recent and persistent low back painPrimary study
- The effects of a single session of lumbar spinal manipulative therapy in terms of physical performance test symmetry in asymptomatic athletes: a single-blinded, randomised controlled studyPrimary study
- Spinal cord stimulation for low back pain (Cochrane review)Narrative reviewSummary2023
- Reliability and validity of manual palpation for the assessment of patients with low back pain: a systematic and critical reviewNarrative reviewSummary2021
- A critical review of the biopsychosocial model of low back pain care: time for a new approach?Narrative reviewSummary2020
- Chronic localized back pain due to entrapment of cutaneous branches of posterior rami of the thoracic nerves (POCNES): a case series on diagnosis and managementCase seriesSummary2019
- Informed appropriate imaging for low back pain management: a narrative reviewNarrative reviewSummary2018