Haute Autorité de Santé - Diagnosis and management of acute low back pain (<3 months) with or without sciatica

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Practice guidelines

Diagnosis and management of acute low back pain (<3 months) with or without sciatica

Acute low back pain is defined as pain which has been present for less than three months.
These guidelines apply to acute low back pain and acute low back pain with sciatica.
Their topics are:

initial évaluation of patients, in particular i) diagnosis of so-called symptomatic acute low back pain, and ii) diagnostic and therapeutic emergencies
imaging
treatment

Date
February 2000