LUMBOSACRAL JUNCTION

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Abstract
Chronic lumbar backache continues to be a source of difficulty, both to the patient and to the physician called on for treatment. There is hardly a person who has not, at some time, experienced low backache. The vast majority of the backaches are transitory and will subside with little or no treatment. There are, however, many instances in which these bothersome backaches become chronic and tax the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the physician. In order to determine the relationship between the roentgenographic findings and chronic lumbar backache, a study was made comparing 100 patients with backache and an equal number of persons not bothered by backache. The group of persons with chronic backache included the first hundred who applied for treatment at the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital in the year chosen for study. They were not screened except that those persons with obvious pathological changes, such as herniation

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