BMJ 2005;330 (8 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7482.0
Demedicalising neck pain helps patients
Brief physiotherapy interventions focused on demedicalising the problem and teaching the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy can be as beneficial as standard physiotherapy for patients who prefer this treatment. Klaber Moffett and colleagues (p 75) randomised 268 patients to standard physiotherapy (five sessions) or up to three sessions of the brief intervention. Overall, patients who received standard care reported a significant improvement compared with patients in the brief intervention group, but patients who preferred the brief intervention and received this treatment had similar outcomes to patients receiving usual physiotherapy.
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- Jennifer A Klaber Moffett, David A Jackson, Stewart Richmond, Seokyung Hahn, Simon Coulton, Amanda Farrin, Andrea Manca, and David J Torgerson
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