A classification-based approach to low back pain in primary care - protocol for a benchmarking controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Guidelines recommend a biopsychosocial framework for low back pain (LBP) management and the avoidance of inappropriate imaging. In clinical practice, care strategies are often inconsistent with evidence and guidelines, even though LBP is the most common disabling health condition worldwide. Unhelpful beliefs, attitudes and inappropriate imaging are common. LBP is understood to be a complex biopsychosocial phenomenon with many known multidimensional risk factors (symptom- and lifestyle-related, psychological and social) for persistent or prolonged disability, which should be identified and addressed by treatment. The STarT Back Tool (SBT) was developed for early identification of individual risk factors of LBP to enable targeted care. Stratified care according SBT has bee

SUBMITTER: Simula AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137427 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature