TY - JOUR T1 - Bed Rest and Normal Daily Activity Were Equivalent for Acute Low-Back Pain AU - Rozenberg, S AU - Delval, C AU - Rezvani, Y Y1 - 2003/05/01 N1 - JO - The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery SP - 975 EP - 975 VL - 85 IS - 5 N2 - Patients: 278 ambulatory patients who were 18 to 65 years of age (mean age, 44 years; 53% women) with acute low-back pain or a recent episode (<72 hours) of chronic low-back pain with spontaneous lumbar pain rated =40 mm on a 100-mm visual analog scale (VAS). Exclusion criteria were pain radiating distal to the buttocks; compressive, posttraumatic, inflammatory, infectious, or tumoral disease; or low-back pain resulting from an occupational accident. 98% of the patients had complete follow-up. SN - 0021-9355 M3 - doi: UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ER -