Is it time to discard the term 'diagnosis' when examining a person with uncomplicated axial neck pain?

摘要

For the last 50 years or more, spine care clinicians have been preoccupied, almost to the point of obsession, in their search for the "diagnosis," "pathology," "cause," or "generator" of uncomplicated axial neck pain. There is no easier method to generate a heated controversial debate than to question the credibility of a clinician's favorite method of diagnosing the structure or pathology he or she believes is the source of a patient's pain and, therefore, Likely to be amenable to whatever treatment the clinician is offering.