Open AccessSimultaneous multidisciplinary care pathway for back pain: a new approach for a first-level comprehensive evaluation and treatment to guarantee adequate pain relief and recovery
Author(s) -
Massimo Allegri,
Massimiliano Sacchelli,
Dino Sgavicchia,
Vincenzo Manna,
F Cappabianca,
Gabriele Mezzetti,
Tommaso Laddomada,
Roberto Citarella,
Michele Incerti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
aboutopen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2465-2628
DOI - 10.33393/ao.2021.2225
Subject(s) - multidisciplinary approach , medicine , low back pain , back pain , disease , intensive care medicine , health care , physical therapy , alternative medicine , social science , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
Low back pain continues to be a major clinical challenge with high direct and indirect societal costs. It is a complex disease with complex pathophysiology both for acute and chronic low back pain.
Although there is consistent evidence about multidisciplinary treatment of low back pain, several different approaches and techniques are proposed, with different results often conflicting among them. In fact, even though the multidisciplinary approach is widely accepted, it is generally applied in different steps involving only one health care providing for each approach. This approach not only does not guarantee a real multidisciplinary vision of this disease but also lacks evaluation of the dynamic changes of the disease according to real patients’ needs.
In our hospital setting we have developed a “simultaneous multidisciplinary care” of low back pain patients in order to overcome these problems and to satisfy all patients’ needs by evaluating and treating all problems causing and related to low back pain. Starting from the existing literature we propose our approach as a new pathway to treat low back patients with a simultaneous multidisciplinary approach.