title: [Evaluation of low back pain].
abstract: Patients with low back pain should be evaluated on their various clinical aspects. The evaluation instruments can be classified into four types: pain measures, function measures, psychosocial measures, and composite measures. The evaluation should be done by patient self-reporting style. Since it is difficult to evaluate patients with a single measure, the evaluation should be done with combination of several instruments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University.
authors.forename: Kazuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D010147:Pain Measurement