Talk:Lumbalgia

I edited the treatment section. WP has a substantially expanded section since the fork. I used that as the basis.

• there were no references
• treatments without supporting empiric evidence were presented indistinguishably from useful treatments.

So...

• I added many references, especially using the {{Cochrane Collaboration]].
• I divided the non-surgical treatments into two sections, treatments with and those without supporting evidence.

Persisting problems:

• I do not like surgery being in its own section apart from the dichotomy above.
• there are some sentences I would like to remove because there is no supporting evidence cited and is an opinion only, for example "Generally, some form of consistent stretching and exercise is believed to be an essential component of most back treatment programs". However, I have not removed these.
• The section still does not read well as it is hard to work with the original text.

Comments/suggestions/edits welcome. Robert Badgett 02:23, 16 November 2006 (CST)