The challenges of self-management of low back pain from the physiotherapist perspective

Abstract

Relevance: The study relates to the conference theme ‘Research, Education and Practice’. This qualitative study focused on an important area of clinical practice as physiotherapists are expected to encourage self-management for people living with low back pain. Further, physiotherapists themselves may require support for self-management, thus their training needs were also explored. This study brings together research, education and practice as it explored how self-management was understood in clinical practice, how this fitted with current literature and highlighted educational needs of physiotherapists.