User:Jkaplan2018/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Low back pain

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
For this article, I have chosen a pretty vague condition. I wanted to see how wiki publishers would organize and explain this phenomenon. Since lower back pain is such a common symptom, it is a very generalized disorder that can present itself in hundreds if not thousands of different ways. This is a condition from which I suffer chronic pain. I was certainly interested in how these writers would explain the condition to the average user without prior medical knowledge. My impressions of this article seem very specific to common reasons someone may have LBP; it was made to tailor the user to look up to why their lower back hurts. The lead section was all over the place, not giving an excellent guide of the disorder. This is what I meant by tailoring to the user looking up why their back pain is present. The lead section goes nominally into the background then pulls off random examinations and treatments. As a reader, I would have enjoyed history and statistics in the lead section and saved random sentences about techniques and weird treatment for the sections later in the article, in which they belong.

Evaluate the article
After the lead section for this article, I enjoyed the education aspect of the writing. The writers did a good job publishing educational facts that were easy to read and understand went to a clear depth of understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the structure and possible causes for onset. I thought this was a decent read other than the lead part of the article; the writers did a good job contributing an overview of a broad disorder like LBP. The writers may need to overlook the organization of this article, pushing prognosis and Epidemiology more towards the front as that order will make more sense. History is important and usually should be first. Still, I agree with the writers putting it closer to last as this disorder nobody is looking for the history as much as they're looking for the symptoms and treatments.