Patient Education for Patients With Back Pain Referred to Physical Therapy

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Conditions studied: Low Back Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate patients with low back pain who are scheduled to begin physical therapy but have not yet had their first appointment to better understand their beliefs and attitudes and to evaluate the effects of an educational session about low back pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02648373

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

76

Starts

2014-10-01

Expected to finish

2015-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-01-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Chief complaint of non-specific low back pain scheduled to receive outpatient physical therapy
• age 18-60
• duration of current symptoms < 8weeks
• referred to physical therapy from a non-surgeon provider
• no treatment received for low back pain in past year other than physician office visits.

You may not qualify if…

• Diagnosis provided by the referral source indicating a specific pathoanatomical source for LBP including fracture, spondylolesthesis, ankylosing spondylitis, radiculopathy
• any red flags in the patient's general medical screening questionnaire (i.e. tumor, metabolic diseases etc.).

Where it is running

• The University of Utah Healthcare System — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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