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Oswestry Disability Index

The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a disease-specific measure of disability due to low back pain, originally developed by Fairbank and colleagues in 1980. It is one of the most widely used outcome measures in spine care, enabling clinicians and researchers to quantify the functional impact of low back pain and track treatment response in patients across acute, subacute, and chronic presentations.

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Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / rehabilitation
  • Oswestry, J. D., Proudfoot, S. J., Everleigh, S., & Sparkes, V. (1980). An automatic method for measuring vertebral interbody disc heights. Clinical Biomechanics, 5(2), 104–109. · URL
  • Fairbank, J. C., Couper, J., Davies, J. B., & O'Brien, J. P. (1980). The Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire. Physiotherapy, 66(8), 271–273. · URL
  • Hudson-Cook, N., Tomes-Nicholson, K., & Breen, A. C. (1989). A re-evaluation of the Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire. Spine, 14(9), 957–966. · URL
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