Please give patients their preferred back pain treatment which can get better treatment results.
Professor David Torgerson is just talking about this....
‘There is a 50% greater impact of whatever you do through giving people the treatment or other intervention they prefer.’
The trials in the review tended to look at usual GP care, which tended to be a ‘watching and waiting’ approach with a structured programme of exercise, manual therapy of some sort (physiotherapy, osteopathy or chiropractic) and acupuncture.
Yes,Preference can strongly affect the outcome in back pain patients,please give patients treatment they perferred. new research found little evidence for the existence of subgroups of patients with chronic back pain that would be especially likely to benefit from acupuncture.However, persons with chronic low back pain who had more severe baseline dysfunction had the most short-term benefit from acupuncture (BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009, 10:114).
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