Goal setting practice in chronic low back pain. What is current practice and is it affected by beliefs and attitudes?
CONCLUSION: Goal setting is common practice for CLBP and is perceived as a high priority. It is more often a collaboration between therapist and patient rather than patient-led with treatment orientation of the physiotherapist a predictor of patient involvement. Education of healthcare professionals needs to include better understanding of chronic pain to orient them away from a biomedical treatment approach, as well as to enhance skills in facilitating patient involvement in goal setting.
PMID: 29345522 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Gardner T, Refshauge K, McAuley J, Hübsher M, Goodall S, Smith L Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research
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