title: [A rheumatologist's point of view on lumbago].
abstract: The rheumatologist has to be sure the low back pain of more than three months duration has a mechanical origin, i.e. that it is not due to a tumoral, infectious, metabolic or traumatic vertebral disease. He has to recognise a low back pain from visceral origin and, at the opposite, a functional disorder. The mechanical low back pain may arise from the intervertebral disk, the articular process, a spondylolisthesis, etc... The management includes various physical and medicamentous means; the surgical procedures must be exceptional and have to be done only in highly selected patients. There is a great amount of post-operative sources of low-back pain.
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authors.lastname: Glimet
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012219:Rheumatology; D012585:Sciatica / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000150:complications; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000150:complications; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: La douleur lombaire vue par le rhumatologue.