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Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Review Open Access The epidemiology of low back pain in primary care 1 2 Peter M Kent* and Jennifer L Keating Address: 1School of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and 2Physiotherapy, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Email: Peter M Kent* - peter.kent@.au; Jennifer L Keating - jenny.keating@.au * Corresponding author Published: 26 July 2005 Received: 06 May 2005 Accepted: 26 July 2005 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2005, 13:13 doi:10.1186/1746-1340-13-13 This article is available from: /content/13/1/13 © 2005 Kent and Keating; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This descriptive review provides a summary of the prevalence, activity limitation (disability), care- seeking, natural history and clinical course, treatment outcome, and costs of low back pain (LBP) in primary care. LBP is a common problem affecting both genders and most ages, for which about one in four adults seeks care in a six-month period. It results in considerable direct and indirect costs, and these costs are financial, workforce and social. Care-seeking behaviour varies depending on cultural factors, the