[Diagnosis, therapy and assessment of chronic lower back pain]

Evaluation of lower back pain (LBP) in terms of legal assessment is important since pain, as the most frequent symptom of diseases of the human musculoskeletal system, is a subjective sensation. Frequently, medical findings are not consistent with the subjective pain sensation. Because of multi-dimensional causes of (chronic) LBP and a high impact of psychosomatic comorbidity, the assessor has to prove all complaints of a test subject in terms of consistency with the (objective) findings. Therefore, it is often necessary to include psychosomatic aspects into the evaluation of multi-dimensional origins of LBP.