User talk:MD Prof

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Hello, MD Prof, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Low back pain. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Literature geek |  T@1k?  12:37, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
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"The 'Rational Clinical Examination Series' article provides data to support the importance of certain symptoms. Among patients with lower extremity pain in combination with back pain, lumbar stenosis as the cause is more likely in patients older than 70 years of age [ likelihood ratio (LR) of 2.0 (95% CI 1.6-2.5)] versus those young than 60 years [LR of 0.40 (95% CI, 0.29-0.57)] The character of the pain is also useful.  When the discomfort does not occur while seated, the likelihood of the likelihood of LSS increases considerably, but the confidence interval around the LR is broad (LR 7.4; 95% CI, 1.9-30).  Other features increasing the likelihood of lumbar stenosis are improvement in symptoms on bending forward ((LR, 6.4; 95% CI, 4.1-9.9), pain that occurs in both buttocks or legs (LR, 6.3; 95% CI, 3.1-13), and the presence of neurogenic claudication (LR, 3.7; 95% CI, 2.9-4.8).  In contradistinction, the absence of neurogenic claudication makes lumbar stenosis much less likely as the explanation for the pain (LR 0.23; 95% CI, 0.17-0.31). A clinical scoring system that includes combinations of findings has been reported in one study."


 * 1) Please just state the facts. Saying when or where the facts where published is not needed
 * 2) Put content in lay language. This rather than giving likelihood ratios and confidence intervals just say this finding increases the chance of it being this by this much.
 * 3) Properly format the references with this tool All you need to do is copy and paste the output of the PMID into Wikipedia.

Let me know if you have any questions and welcome to Wikipedia. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:36, 8 January 2011 (UTC)