General practitioners' treatment orientations towards low back pain: Influence on treatment behaviour and patient outcome

Background: In low back pain (LBP) treatment and research attention has shifted from a biomedical towards a biopsychosocial approach. Patients' LBP beliefs and attitudes were found to predict long-term outcome, and recently it has been suggested that the health care providers' ideas about LBP are also important predictors of treatment behaviour and Outcome.

Publication year:2009