Hi List Members
At 11:50 7/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
> LBP *is* a diagnosis, but only a nominal (as opposed to an essential) one.
>As long as that remains the case, practice proceeds from ignorance to
>guessing. Hardly the basis for useful or enlightening research.
>
> Barrett L. Dorko P.T.
I have to aggree with Barrett, just because the medical practitioners has
decided to call LBP a diagnosis and it is listed in the ICD 9 codes doesn't
mean we as physiotherapists have to follow this dogma.
Low Back Pain is a non-specific diagnosis at the best and far too broad and
generalised in my opinion.
Cheers
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