Lifestyle-Related Chronic Diseases and Low Back Pain: Patient-Reported Physical and Mental Health and Early Post-Operative Outcomes
Lifestyle-related chronic diseases were common in this cohort and more prevalent in patients evaluated by spine surgeons, highlighting the need for pre-surgical health optimization. Future work should prospectively investigate lifestyle metrics, patient-reported outcomes, and post-operative events following standardized lifestyle medicine program implementation.
Authors
- Jennifer Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8458-619X)
- Olivia Leupold
- Heidi Prather (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2107-3615)
- Olivia R. Rau
- Gbolabo Sokunbi
- Joel Press
- Anne Goldring
- Harvinder Sandhu
Institutions
- Hospital for Special Surgery (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/15598276261415815
- Primary Topic
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00