title: A database for back (axial skeletal) pain.
abstract: Back pain cannot be considered a mere symptom that has as its only function reference to relevant hidden disease. Back pain must be acknowledged as a disorder that requires description and assessment as carefully as any of the well-established clinical entities. This article outlines a clinically useful, descriptive "morphology" or nosography of the various axial skeletal pains stated, and proposes methods for their classification and evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social Medicine, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Raspe
mesh_terms: D001416:Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010147:Pain Measurement