Neglect your back to control your pain?
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Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is among the most common disorders leading to inability to work in industrialized countries, despite (or because of?) an armada of doctors trying to treat it. Ten years ago, anyone saying that these patients “neglect” the back would have been considered crazy; we were convinced that the opposite was the case, that they concentrate on their back and are highly aware of their pain.
In this issue of Neurology®, Moseley et al.1 explain that sensory neglect and back pain must not be a contradiction; they rather have a so far neglected connection. In order to understand this relationship, we should first move away from the back to the limbs. For basic …
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