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This intensively researched paper is a study of nearly 3000 patients initially evaluated at primary care centers for low back pain.[1] Some were diagnosed with a component of neuropathic leg pain and another group had what the authors consider to be nociceptive referred leg pain. Such patients had non‐neuropathic pain in a leg in association with low back pain. The authors conclude that there is “some evidence of higher levels of morbidity in low back leg pain patients with neuropathic pain.” This is hardly earthshattering. Primary care providers if they find evidence of neuropathic leg pain should be aware that this is more serious than if there is nociceptive leg pain. However, there is no overarching statistic that the authors of this paper present to confirm this conclusion. “More research is needed” is hardly helpful. They state that there is “some consistent evidence for worse back and leg pain related disability in LBLP (low back leg pain) patients with neuropathic pain.” Such conclusions are consistent with other published evidence, but the authors sought to confirm this by studying only those patients who presented to primary care centers. For a study that relied heavily on careful collation of scientific studies, there is a paucity of statistical inclusion in the results.

surgical neurology international

Commentary on: Neuropathic pain in low back-related leg pain patients: What is the evidence of prevalence, characteristics, and prognosis in primary care? A systematic review of the literature