- 만성요통의 적정 치료를 둘러싼 논란: 중재적 치료 대 보존적 치료
- ㆍ 저자명
- 권오현,Kwon. O-Hyun
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 대한임상신경생리학회지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2010년|12권 1호|pp.1-2 (2 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 대한임상신경생리학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Chronic non-specific low back pain (CLBP) is one of the major health problems casting substantial amount of economic expenses and negative impact on quality of life onto an individual as well as society. On contrary to public familiarity, the ways of management of CLBP are diverse and there is yet no general consensus about which approach is better than others or to whom the specific management should be applied. Some hold the negative point of view on the efficacy of the invasive maneuver such as epidural injection because there is no controlled clinical trial (RCT) yielding better long term outcome of those invasive managements over conservative ones. But the experts of interventional or surgical treatment stress the methodological difficulty in performing RCT and assert that those invasive treatments can bring the prompt and complete resolution of low back pain and restoration of function in appropriately selected cases. These seemingly opposite views on the invasive management on CLBP are rather complimentary each other than to be contradictory.