Education of Municipality-based Physiotherapists in Managing Disabling Low Back Pain - an Observational Study
Unknown statusNCT05794373
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
A consistent theme in the modern-day healthcare system is the difficulty of transferring research knowledge into clinical practice. Recently, it has been pointed out that this is a barrier for providing care that is evidence-based which may partly explain the growing burden of low back pain. Low back pain, as all other musculoskeletal pain conditions is multidimensional where biomedical and psychological factors need to be accounted for, as well as the patient's social context. From the healthcare provider perspective, this requires skills that often goes beyond the basic training where clinicians need to be able to assess and manage the multiple domains in a patient-centered manner. In Denmark, people living with disabling low back pain can be referred to a municipality-based rehabilitation program. This study seeks to investigate whether providing physiotherapists an evidence-based educational course on the management of low back pain will change patient-related outcomes. Likewise, we will investigate potential barriers and facilitators for implementing the skills the physiotherapists acquire in clinical practice. If the project shows a favorable effect, it will allow for upscaling the intervention within and across municipalities. Moreover, a positive outcome may provide indications of what type of continuing education resources should be made available to help clinicians better manage complicated low back pain problems.
Study details
- Official title
- Education of Municipality-based Physiotherapists in Managing Disabling Low Back Pain - an Observational Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Standard physiotherapy for low back pain in a municipality setting
- Sponsor
- Aalborg University Hospital
- Collaborators
- Spine Centre of Southern Denmark
- Start date
- 2023-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Denmark
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
The following criteria apply for the patients entering the study Inclusion Criteria: * referred to municipality care from the Spine Clinic of Southern Denmark * Between 18-65 years * Speaks and comprehends Danish * A score over 40 on the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire * Low back pain as dominating cause for referral Exclusion Criteria: * A current diagnosis of psychiatric illness that precludes participation in rehabilitation * A neurologic disorder or other disease that may affect the ability to participate in a municipality based rehabilitation program * A neurological deficits related with radiographically confirmed lumbar spinal stenosis or radicular pain correlating with the clinical presentation * Recent (within 6 months) history of a stabilizing operation of the low back
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05794373