Hazard Rowland G
Department of Orthopaedics and Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, The Spine Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756-0001, USA.
Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2007 Jan;86(1 Suppl):S59-68. doi: 10.1097/phm.0b013e31802ba50c.
Back and neck pain are symptoms, often complaints, and sometimes causes of disability, but they are not diseases. These distinctions are critical to understanding the personal and societal impact of back and neck pain and our opportunities to discover new ways to reduce their impact. This article briefly describes current diagnosis and treatment of spinal pain, the relationship between pain and disability, and the challenges in prioritizing our resource allocations between curing pain problems and reducing disability.
背痛和颈痛是症状，常常是人们诉说的问题，有时也是导致残疾的原因，但它们并非疾病。这些区别对于理解背痛和颈痛对个人及社会的影响，以及我们探索减轻其影响的新方法的机会而言至关重要。本文简要介绍了脊柱疼痛的当前诊断和治疗方法、疼痛与残疾之间的关系，以及在将资源分配优先用于解决疼痛问题和减少残疾方面所面临的挑战。
