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PubMed1990

[Magnetic tomography and backache].

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a well documented method for diagnosis of spinal disease. We discuss the changes in the number of myelographies and spinal CT examinations carried out at our department after having had our own MRI unit for two years.

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PubMed1990

[Backaches].

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PubMed1990

[Surgery for backache].

All types of lumbar pain are of course not an indication for surgery. However, an operation may bring relief from lymbodynia in given conditions, owing to the better knowledge of spinal physiopathology and to the evolution of the surgical technique. This is the case for intervertebral disk pathology, lesions of the posterior articular structures, lumbar canal stenosis, vertebral tumors or malunions, as well as for some cases of painful frontal or sagittal deviation of the spine. State-of-the art techniques utilize arthrodesis, often with a plate or CD-material osteosynthesis, but future surgery should be aimed at preserving motion.

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PubMed1989

[Chronic backache in migrant workers from Mediterranean countries in comparison to central European patients: demographic and psychosocial aspects].

The standardized interviews of 26 chronic back pain patients from central Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Poland) were compared with those of 28 patients from Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey), all of whom had been referred for participation in an integrated treatment program for chronic back pain. The two samples differed significantly in most of the psychosocial aspects studied. Patients from Mediterranean countries had a significantly lower level of education and were mostly employed as unskilled workers, while patients from central Europe were mostly housewives or skilled workers with higher levels of education. In the Mediterranean sample the back pain had generally developed much faster into a disabling disease with the attendant consequences (sick leave, loss of job, litigation). More than one third of the Mediterranean patients lived with a partner who was also sick and unable to work. These patients also adopted a more passive stance towards their illness by rarely using self-help, and showed poor readiness to participate in the self-monitoring orientated treatment program proposed to them. They were less aware of the influence of their own behaviour on pain and of any relation between the illness and their present or previous life situation. They complained less of a broken home in their childhood or earlier medical problems, but more frequently reported suffering from poverty in their childhood. The uneven composition of the two samples reflects the special social situation of foreign workers from Mediterranean countries in central Europe. Unskilled workers are significantly overrepresented in the latter segment of the adult working population of the study area (city of Basel, Switzerland). This overrepresentation is similar to that in our patient sample. The special situation of foreign workers from Mediterranean countries seems to account for their high incidence of chronic intractable back pain.

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PubMed1989

[Validity of the Hoppe List. An empirical study of patients with backache].

Construct validity, criterion-oriented validity, and differential validity were assessed to determine the validity of the Hoppe-Liste (HL). Construct validity was ascertained by the multitrait-multimethod analysis suggested by Campbell & Fiske. Data regarding both convergent and discriminant validity show that the HL measures the construct pain. A comparison of the HL with the Revised Multidimensional Pain Scale and the Visual Analogue Scale suggests the criterion-oriented validity of the HL. Group-specific scores of the HL scales and of correlation patterns between scales tentatively support differential validity. It is concluded that the HL seems to be a suitable instrument for measuring the intensity and quality of pain.

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