Epidural anaesthesia and low back pain after delivery: Table 1

EDITOR,—The final key message in the paper by Alison Macarthur and colleagues is that everyone “can assure women that any increased risk of low back pain is small and transient.”1 The two key questions are then “How big is the risk?” and “How long does it last?” Despite differences in the definition of the outcome backache, when the data from the paper1 were combined with those from previous studies …