title: [Low back pain--from work incapacity to disability].
abstract: Nonspecific low back pain is a common human condition and is poorly explained by physical and radiologic findings. Chronification is mainly related to socioeconomic and cultural factors. The insistance on a medical paradigm for explanation and treatment leads to a medicalisation of social conditions and generates wrong answers to real problems.
authors.affiliation: Academy of Swiss Insurance Medicine, Universitätsspital Basel. grisi@uhbs.ch
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Risi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011379:Prognosis; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D012803:Sick Role; D012943:Social Security; D013557:Switzerland