[Acute low back pain in general practice medicine].
The practioner's first concern is knowing how to single out from the immense majority of situations susceptible to a favourable spontaneous evolution those patients with a bad prognostic necessitating reference to a specialist. We present in this paper the clinical steps designed to meet this challenge and a reminder of certain principles of patient diagnosis and care.
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D059787:Acute Pain; D058006:General Practice; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy