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Volume 344:1644-1645 May 24, 2001 Number 21
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Low Back Pain

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To the Editor: The informative review of the evaluation and treatment of low back pain in primary care by Deyo and Weinstein (Feb. 1 issue)1 bypassed electrodiagnostic testing (by electromyography), one of the most common diagnostic procedures. Electrodiagnostic testing, which has been available for more than 50 years, has been largely swept aside in the rush for more visually interesting imaging studies. But long before the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)2 existed, a large study that used surgical findings as a standard established that electromyography was better than the physical examination and equal to or better than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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