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Attitudes to back pain amongst musculoskeletal practitioners : a comparison of professional groups and practice settings using the ABS-mp
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Pincus, Tamar, Foster, Nadine E., Vogel, Steven, Santos, Rita, Breen, Alan and Underwood, Martin (2007) Attitudes to back pain amongst musculoskeletal practitioners : a comparison of professional groups and practice settings using the ABS-mp. Manual Therapy, 12 (2). pp. 167-175. doi:10.1016/j.math.2006.06.005
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2006.06.005
Abstract
Chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists play key roles in the management of low back pain (LBP) patients in the UK. We investigated the attitudes of these three professional groups to back pain using a recently developed and validated questionnaire, the Attitudes to Back Pain Scale for musculoskeletal practitioners (ABS-mp). A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was sent to 300 of each professional group (n = 900). Responses were analysed from 465 practitioners: 132 chiropractors (28%), 159 osteopaths (34%) and 174 physiotherapists (37%). Overall, all three groups endorse a psychosocial approach to treatment, and see re-activation as a primary goal. However, physiotherapists and osteopaths tend to endorse attitudes towards limiting the number of treatment sessions offered to LBP patients more than chiropractors, and chiropractors endorse a more biomedical approach than physiotherapists. When practice setting (NHS versus private practice) was considered (in physiotherapists alone), physiotherapists working for the NHS endorsed limiting the number of treatment sessions more than those working in the private sector and would also less frequently advise their patients to restrict activities and be vigilant. The results may help explain current clinical practice patterns observed in these groups and their uptake of clinical guideline recommendations. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Manual Therapy | ||||
| Publisher: | Churchill Livingstone | ||||
| ISSN: | 1356-689X | ||||
| Official Date: | 1 May 2007 | ||||
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| Volume: | 12 | ||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 167-175 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.math.2006.06.005 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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