Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale

Purpose: To evaluate the functional disability of a person with back pain using the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale.

Info MyLikes MyPaths

Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient with back pain?

Yes

Select appropriate answer for each activity

Take food out of refrigerator

Climb 1 flight of stairs

Get out of bed

Sleep for 6 hours

Reach to a shelf

Make a bed

Throw a ball

Turn over in bed

Put on socks

Walk several blocks

Sit in car for 1 hour

Move a table

Stand for 30 minutes

Pull a heavy door

Carry groceries

Bend over the sink

Walk several miles (kilometers)

Run 2 blocks

Lift 40 pounds (18.2 kilograms)

Sit for 4 hours

Results

Please fill out required fields.

Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Total score

MedicalAlgorithms.com APIs

Power Your Solutions with 5,000+ Automated Medical Analytics

Seamlessly integrate our API library of over 5,000 evidence-based medical analytics into your products and workflows. Our APIs help you:

Build custom, automated clinical workflows tailored to your organization's needs.
Enhance your clinical decision support with advanced, evidence-based analytics.
Streamline revenue cycle management by integrating clinical analytics into billing, coding, and compliance processes.
Support payment and pre-approval processes with automated, standardized medical criteria.
Embed proven medical algorithms directly into your systems and services for consistent, high-quality outcomes.

With MedicalAlgorithms.com APIs, you can accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and deliver more accurate, data-driven care—without reinventing the wheel.

Explore Medal API

Caution: A qualified health practitioner should verify all results.
Keep patient data confidential and comply with all legal requirements.

Please visit our website Medicalalgorithms.com for Description and Interpretation and further algorithms you may want to consider in the next steps of your evaluation. All information should be verified by a qualified health professional, and all use is subject to Medicalalgorithms.com Terms and Conditions. © Copyright Medicalalgorithms.com Limited

Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis, Including Family History For Genetics
- Lumbar Disc Herniation Clinical Symptom Score
Other Testing
- Functional Improvement Measures (FIM) for Low Back Pain
Criteria For Diagnosis
- Micheli Functional Scale (MFS) for Evaluating Athlete with Low Back Pain
Severity, Prognosis, Stage

Therapy

Prevention
- Techniques for Preventing Low Back Injury When Lifting
Surgery
- Lumbar Disc Herniation Clinical Symptom Score
- Herniated Lumbar Disc | Criteria for Outcome Following Elective Discectomy

Monitoring

Response To Therapy
Disease Progression
- Modified General Function Score (GFS) for Patient with Low Back Pain

Patient Concerns

Disability And Performance
Exercise
- Micheli Functional Scale (MFS) for Evaluating Athlete with Low Back Pain

Specialty

Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation
Surgery, orthopedic
Neurology

Objective

severity
prognosis
stage
disability and performance

ICD-10

M25.5 - Pain in joint
M54 - Dorsalgia
R52 - Pain, not elsewhere classified

Info

Purpose: To evaluate the functional disability of a person with back pain using the Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale.

Specialty: Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation, Surgery, orthopedic, Neurology

Objective: severity, prognosis, stage, disability and performance

ICD-10: M25.5, M54, R52,

Save Data

Identifier

Enter 1 to 5 characters as ID

Email

Your registered email

Other

Email to

Please separate multiple email IDs with comma (,)

Consult Report

Identifier

Enter 1 to 5 characters as ID

Add to MyPath

Select path

New path