The Ninth International Forum for Primary Care  Research on Low Back Pain.
METHODS
Review of oral and poster presentations and of workshop summaries from the Ninth International Forum for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain held in Majorca, Spain, October 4-6, 2007.


OBJECTIVE
Summarize highlights of the conference.


BACKGROUND
The International Forum for Primary Care Research on Low Back Pain has become the primary conference for presenting research on the advances in primary care for back pain.


METHODS
Distillation of the key themes and findings of the research presented at the Forum.


RESULTS
Presentations at the forum included intervention studies, psychosocial aspects of low back pain, and epidemiological, clinical, and pathologic studies.


CONCLUSIONS
The research presented at the forum has contributed to the advancement of understanding of how to improve primary care for low back pain. The Tenth International Forum will occur on June 14-17, 2009, in Boston.
Cherkin
Daniel
D
Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. cherkin.d@ghc.org
Kovacs
Francisco M
FM
Croft
Peter
P
Borkan
Jeffrey
J
Foster
Nadine E
NE
Oberg
Birgitta
B
Urrútia
Gerard
G
Zamora
Javier
J
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