A national framework for supporting improvements in the physiotherapy assessment and management of low back pain: the Scottish experience

Evaluation of physiotherapists as primary assessors of patients with musculoskeletal disorders seeking primary health care

“…The physiotherapists referred 6% (26/432) of the patients to a GP. This is in line with, but somewhat lower than a large study in Scotland, where physiotherapists discharged about 10% of patients with low back pain for further medical review ( [18].The fact that patients did not need to see a GP for interventions such as x-rays, short-term medical certificates, or prescriptions saves time for both patients and GPs. A fundamental requirement for enabling this is well-established cooperation between physiotherapists and GPs, as well as confidence in the competence of the physiotherapists.…”

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Knowledge Translation Interventions for Chronic Noncancer Pain Management

“…After screening 8765 titles and abstracts, 233 articles were judged to be potentially relevant, 28 of which satisfied the eligibility criteria. Of these, nine references were multiple publications and, therefore, the review included 19 unique studies (seven RCTs [22,[37][38][39][40][41][42], six cluster RCTs [43][44][45][46][47][48], three CCTs [49][50][51] and three CBAs [52][53][54]) reported in 28 publications (Figure 1). The complete list of excluded studies and reasons for exclusion is available on request.…”

The efficacy of Back School on chronic low back pain of workers of a pharmaceutical company in a Tehran Suburb. COPCORD stage II study

“…21 The treatment of LBP ranges from no intervention, to analgesics, rest, exercises, and different kinds of local interventions, from manipulations, acupuncture, heat or cold and different physiotherapy modalities, to local injections (anesthetics, steroids, chemonucleolysis) and surgical interventions. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] The combination of both seems to have better results than each separately. In one study 90% of patients were cured in 2 weeks 22 and in another study only 21% had completely recovered in 3 months and 25% in 12 months.…”

“…24 Among all these therapeutic methods, patient education and exercise seems to have good results. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] The combination of both seems to have better results than each separately. 35 Back School (BS) is a combination of patient education and exercises.…”