Trial reportBMC primary care2022
Misbeliefs about non-specific low back pain and attitudes towards treatment by primary care providers in Spain: a qualitative study.
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The Influence of an Educational Internet-based Intervention in the Beliefs and Attitudes of Primary Care Professionals on Non-specific Chronic Low Back Pain: Study Protocol of a Mixed Methods Approach
Comparative Effects of McGill Stabilization Exercises and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Technique on Pain, Range of Motion and Functional Disability in Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Perception gaps between healthcare professionals and people with CLBP: an online survey of current primary care management practices in the United Kingdom.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Objective and subjective assessment of back shape and function in persons with and without low back pain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Chronic Pain in Spanish Physiotherapy Practice: Treatment Challenges and Opportunities in Diverse Healthcare Settings-A Qualitative Study.Clinics and practice · 2024Article
- Chronic Pain Management Approaches among Spanish Physiotherapists: Influences, Practices, Barriers, and Challenges.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Article
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- Medical and exercise consultation use for low back and knee pain among cardiovascular mass screening population: A cross-sectional study.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Biomedical Dogmas Still Influence the Delivery of Exercise Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain Management: Mixed-Methods Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
- Back Pain: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
aimTo identify misbeliefs about the origin and meaning of non-specific chronic low back pain and to examine attitudes towards treatment by primary health care providers.
designGeneric qualitative study.
methodsTen semi-structured interviews were conducted between October and November 2016 with physicians and nurses from primary health care centres in Lleida. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using inductive thematic analysis via Atlas.ti-8 software.
resultsFive themes were identified: i. beliefs about the origin and meaning of chronic low back pain, ii. psychosocial aspects of pain modulators, iii. Therapeutic exercise as a treatment for chronic low back pain, iv. biomedical attitudes of primary health care providers, and v. difficulties in the clinical approach to chronic low back pain.
conclusionPrimary health care providers have a unifactorial view of chronic low back pain and base their approach on the biomedical model. Professionals attribute chronic low back pain to structural alterations in the lumbar spine while psychosocial factors are only recognized as pain modulators. For professionals, therapeutic exercise represents a possible solution to chronic low back pain; however, they still do not prescribe it and continue to educate on postural hygiene and recommend limiting physical and/or occupational activities, as opposed to clinical practice guidelines. These findings suggest that to improve the adherence of primary health care providers to the biopsychosocial model, it may be necessary first to modify their misbeliefs about non-specific chronic low back pain by increasing their knowledge on pain neurophysiology.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02962817 . Date of registration: 11/11/2016.
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