Chronic low back pain patients' use of, level of knowledge of and perceived benefits of complementary medicine: a cross-sectional study at an academic pain center

• Main Authors: Julie Dubois (Author), Emmanuelle Scala (Author), Mohamed Faouzi (Author), Isabelle Decosterd (Author), Bernard Burnand (Author), Pierre-Yves Rodondi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Chronic pain patients often use complementary medicine (CM) to alleviate their pain; however, little is known about the use of CM by chronic low back pain (cLBP) patients. We investigated the frequency of use of CM by cLBP patients, the perceived effects of these therapies, patie...