Re: Early Physical Therapy for Acute Low Back Pain May Not Reduce Health Services Utilization, Costs, and Opioid Use

We would like to thank the authors of the Letter to the Editor for their interest and insight into our review, “The Impact of Timing of Physical Therapy for Acute Low Back Pain on Health Services Utilization.”1 We agree that to make more definitive causal claims about the outcomes from the timing of physical therapy, randomized control trials (RCTs) are needed. The final version of the abstract will refl ect a modification that removes causal claims. We believe that future research in this area should focus on using rigorous methodological designs that include randomization and observational studies that use large databases of medical records, claims, and representative national samples.

Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - June 25, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Elizabeth Arnold, Adam Goode, Derek Clewley Tags: Departments Source Type: research