Table 2 Comparison of research priorities from Australian guidelines to those of primary care practitioners.
From: Low back pain research priorities: a survey of primary care practitioners
Research Agenda from the NH&MRC Acute Low Back Pain Guidelines: | Primary care priority number |
|---|---|
Optimising the uptake of evidence-based guidelines by clinicians and consumers. | Â |
International standardisation of definitions of intervention strategies and consistent outcome measures | Â |
Intervention studies addressing clinical and psychosocial predictors | 9 |
Further research into secondary prevention of low back pain | 6 |
Evaluation of temperature treatments, ice, heat | Â |
Evaluation of topical NSAIDs | Â |
Evaluation of cox-2 NSAIDs, traditional NSAIDs, paracetamol and opioid analgesics | Â |
Evaluation of McKenzie therapy and other specific physical regimens | 2, 3 |
Evaluation of multi-disciplinary treatment (e.g. non-occupational settings, programmatic approaches to delivering multidisciplinary care) | Â |
Evaluation of counseling and cognitive behavioural therapy | Â |
Evaluation of spinal manipulation (with and without prior x-ray) | 5 |
Evaluation of massage | Â |
Evaluation of TENS in patients not responding to early advice to resume normal activities | Â |
Evaluation of optimum combinations of therapies | Â |