Unsupervised Learning Meets the World’s Most Supervised Problem

Low back pain (LBP): the great equalizer of spine clinics everywhere. Everyone has it. Everyone’s MRI is “abnormal.” And everyone swears their pain is different.

But…what if doctors stopped treating low back pain like a single diagnosis and let the data sort it out for them — no human bias, no prespecified boxes, no “this looks mechanical to me”?