ILOs
- know the features of mechanical back pain
- use the ‘red flags’ for sinister causes of back pain to diagnose serious back pathology
- know the features, natural history and treatment of acute disc prolapse
- understand the features of inflammatory back disease
- define spondylolisthesis, spondylosis and spinal stenosis
Part 1
- What is the burden of back pain in the UK?
- Look specifically at the economic burden of back pain…
- What sort of financial and psychological effects does back pain have?
- How many people with acute back pain go on to develop chronic back pain?
- What are the difficulties with determining the cause of back pain?
- Outline the broad causes of back pain…
- What is non-specific low back pain (NSLBP)?
- Outline the causes of NSLBP…
- Look at pictures of degenerative spinal disease…
- How do we manage non-specific LBP…
- Look what happens when a disc can herniate…
- Outline what happens in a radiculopathy…