What Do Sufferers with Power Spinal Ache Anticipate from Their Physiotherapist?
Physiother Can. 2018;70(1):36-41
Authors: Kamper SJ, Haanstra TM, Simmons Ok, Kay M, Ingram TGJ, Byrne J, Roddick JM, Setliff A, Corridor AM
Summary
Goal: Proof has instructed that sufferers’ expectations affect the medical course after they current with low again ache (LBP). Nonetheless, little empirical proof has outlined the character of those expectations. The intention of this research was to explain LBP sufferers’ expectations of physiotherapy. Methodology: Seventy-nine grownup sufferers who had LBP for greater than 16 weeks and had been referred for physiotherapy at two hospital physiotherapy departments in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, had been included. They stuffed out a questionnaire detailing their expectations of remedy. Outcomes: Earlier than remedy, greater than 90% of sufferers anticipated a bodily examination, checks or investigations, a prognosis, reassurance and recommendation, and clear explanations of causation, symptom administration, and advantages and dangers of remedy. Roughly half hoped for a prescription or referral to a specialist, and about 60% hoped to debate issues of their life. Conclusions: The findings of this research point out that sufferers attend physiotherapy with clear expectations about what data ought to be offered. Most anticipated checks or investigations resulting in prognosis and a proof of causation; this presents a problem for clinicians, given the present understanding of LBP mirrored in worldwide apply tips. The truth that greater than half of the sufferers needed to debate issues of their life factors to the necessity for physiotherapists to think about LBP from a bio-psychosocial perspective.
PMID: 29434416 [PubMed – in process]