La lombalgie chronique : actualités, prise en charge thérapeutique

Low back pain is one of the most frequent pathologies in industrial nations. Low back pain is considered to be chronic if it has been present for longer than 3 months. Low back pain constitutes the second cause of consultation and the third cause of request of incapacity. The treatment and the prevention of low back pain represent major stakes in public health. The chronic low back pain comes along with a physical deconditioning, and frequently with a progressive desocialisation. The chronic low back pain constitutes a multidimensional syndrome, containing a strong psychosocial constituent. So, numerous risk factors of passage in the chronicity were highlighted, whose most important are work and psychosocial factors. Treatment for chronic low back pain may last from a few weeks to several months, and usually takes a multimodality approach, in which several different therapies (drug, physical, interventional, complementary, psychological) are used in combination with one another. The indications of the surgery in chronic low back pain remain limited.