In this study, the authors aim to compare costs and cost-effectiveness of usual primary care management for patients with acute low back pain with or without the addition of early physical therapy.
For patients with acute, nonspecific low back pain, the results support early physical therapy as cost-effective relative to usual primary care after 1 year.
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