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Many studies in Western industrialized countries have attempted to identify risk factors for LBP [2], [9], [10], with a good evidence of relation between cLBP and history of LBP (including pain severity, duration, disability, leg pain, related sick leave and history of spinal surgery), low level of job satisfaction and poor general health [11] [20].
R for dichotomous variables was 0.20 (radiculopathy – leg pain) and for variables with discrete distributions 0.21 (disability – leg pain) When adjusting for leg pain by subtracting leg pain from back pain, nerve root touch also was positively associated with back pain in patients without radiculopathy (β = 4.19 (0.27–8.10), p = 0.036, data not shown in the Tables).
This long-term follow-up study of the same patient cohort corroborates with earlier 1-year and 2-year results as no significant differences between randomisation groups in disability, leg pain or back pain are found after 5 years of follow-up.
The primary and secondary outcome scores concerning disability, leg pain and back pain at 5 years were slightly higher in the early surgery group compared with the prolonged conservative group; however, there were no significant differences (table 2 and figure 1A C).
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30 patients were excluded due to dementia, disability or leg amputation, deafness, blindness, heart failure, skin dermatitis, skin wound/hematoma, pleural effusion, recurrent infections, or severe malnutrition.
In one crossover trial, 38 topiramate (50-400 mg/day) showed no better immediate effects than placebo for disability and leg or back pain.
37 In this trial, antidepressants, opioid analgesics, and a combination of both had no significant effect compared with placebo in the immediate term for disability or leg or back pain.
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