Towards global clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain in primary care: a review of current guideline recommendations and how they have changed over the last 30 y
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- #Primary Care
- #Low Back Pain
- #Clinical Guidelines
- This review analyzes global clinical practice guidelines for managing non-specific low back pain in primary care, tracking changes from 1994 to 2026.
- Non-specific (primary) low back pain, with no specific pathology, impacts individuals and health systems widely, making evidence-based guidelines essential.
- Periodic overviews since 2001, with the last in 2018, inform this review, which includes new guidelines published since then.
- The review summarizes management recommendations across international guidelines and explores how these have evolved over three decades.
- It is published as an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license, with authors disclosing various grants and relevant affiliations.