Several factors were found to be associated with disability at follow-up for at least two different pain symptoms .
However , owing to insufficient studies , no generic risk factors for sick leave were identified .
Conclusions Multiple site pain , high pain severity , older age , baseline disability and longer pain duration were identified as potential prognostic factors for disability across pain sites .
There was limited evidence that anxiety and depression were associated with disability in patients with subacute pain , indicating that these factors may not play as large a role as expected in developing disability due to a pain condition .
Objective This systematic review aims to identify generic prognostic factors for disability and sick leave in subacute pain patients .
A randomized controlled trial comparing manipulation with mobilization for recent onset neck pain.
UNLABELLED A r and omized controlled trial comparing manipulation with mobilization for recent onset neck pain .  OBJECTIVE To determine whether neck manipulation is more effective for neck pain than mobilization . DESIGN R and omized controlled trial with blind assessment of outcome . SETTING Primary care physiotherapy , chiropractic , and osteopathy clinics in Sydney , Australia . PARTICIPANTS Patients ( N=182 ) with nonspecific neck pain less than 3 months in duration and deemed suitable for treatment with manipulation by the treating practitioner . INTERVENTIONS Participants were r and omly assigned to receive treatment with neck manipulation ( n=91 ) or mobilization ( n=91 ) . Patients in both groups received 4 treatments over 2 weeks . MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The number of days taken to recover from the episode of neck pain . RESULTS The median number of days to recovery of pain was 47 in the manipulation group and 43 in the mobilization group . Participants treated with neck manipulation did not experience more rapid recovery than those treated with neck mobilization ( hazard ratio=.98 ; 95 % confidence interval , .66 - 1.46 ) . CONCLUSIONS Neck manipulation is not appreciably more effective than mobilization . The use of neck manipulation therefore can not be justified on the basis of superior effectiveness
Several factors were found to be associated with disability at follow-up for at least two different pain symptoms .
However , owing to insufficient studies , no generic risk factors for sick leave were identified .
Conclusions Multiple site pain , high pain severity , older age , baseline disability and longer pain duration were identified as potential prognostic factors for disability across pain sites .
There was limited evidence that anxiety and depression were associated with disability in patients with subacute pain , indicating that these factors may not play as large a role as expected in developing disability due to a pain condition .
Objective This systematic review aims to identify generic prognostic factors for disability and sick leave in subacute pain patients .