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The Backache Blues: How to Satisfy Patients With This Ordinary – and Elusive – Complaint

 

Among the most common reasons for seeking medical care , low back pain is best addressed when primary care and specialty providers work collaboratively. To help end the cycle in which patients go from one potential solution to another without finding relief, physical medicine specialist Patricia Zheng, MD, breaks down the evidence to illuminate which signs indicate the need for referral, whether imaging studies actually help, and techniques to meet patients’ immediate and longer-term needs.


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June 4, 2021

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UCSF MedConnection

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Patricia Zheng, MD

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Physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist

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