title: [Low back pain].
abstract: Many people suffer from low back pain in the course of their life, of whom not all seek health care. In the majority of patients who seek care and refrain from work, the problem of pain resolves within a few weeks. It is reason that chronic pain syndromes such as chronic back pain are responsible for enormous costs for health care and society. Also, many diagnostics procedures and durability of rehabilitation makes low back pain as a very expensive disease. All of that are good reasons to make algorithm for diagnostic and treatment of low back pain in Croatian Society for Rheumatology.
authors.affiliation: Odjel za fizikalnu medicinu, rehabilitaciju i reumatologiju, Klinicka bolnica Split, Marmontova 4, 21000 Split.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vlak
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy