Eight Recommendations for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain... by Mechanical low back pain

Radiculopathy is the leg pain and/or numbness and tingling that comes from chemical irritation or mechanical compression of the spinal nerve root. In this particular diagnosis, the source of that pain is a herniated disc affecting the nerve ... The guideline panel got together knowing two things: 1) a small number of people who develop chronic low back pain (probably five per cent) account for 75 per cent of all the money spent on low back pain and 2) management of this ...