CONCLUSIONS: For people with acute LBP, advice to rest in bed is less effective than advice to stay active. For patients with sciatica, there is little or no difference between advice to rest in bed and advice to stay active. There is little or no difference in the effect of bed rest compared to exercises or physiotherapy, or seven days of bed rest compared with two to three.
PMID: 20556750 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)
