title: Back pain and neck pain in four general practices.
abstract: This study records the incidence with which married men and their wives attended four general practices with low back and neck pain.There was a higher attendance with low back pain, but not neck pain, for those men engaged in heavy manual work. Both men and women attending with back pain also attended more frequently with other conditions than those without back pain. A high proportion of the wives of the men who attended frequently were themselves low attenders. There was a high correlation between the low back and neck pain attendance, especially amongst the men. There was a considerable variation in the methods of management of these conditions between the four practices.
authors.affiliation: Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, Yorkshire, UK.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hibbert