Spinal pain patients seeking care in primary care and referred to physiotherapy: A cross-sectional study on patients characteristics, referral information and physiotherapy care offered by general practitioners and physiotherapists in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe spinal pain patients referred by their treating general practitioners to physiotherapy care, examine to which extent physiotherapy interventions proposed by general practitioners and physiotherapists were compliant to evidence based recommendations, and evaluate concordance between providers in terms of diagnosis and contraindications to physiotherapy interventions.

Methods

This study included spinal pain patients recruited from a random sample of sixty French physiotherapists. Physiotherapists were asked to supply patients' physiotherapy records and characteristics from the general practitioner's physiotherapy referral for the five new consecutive patients referred to physiotherapy. General practitioner's physiotherapy referral and physiotherapists' c

SUBMITTER: Demont A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9447922 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature