Université de Fribourg

Primary care patients’ use of conventional and complementary medicine for chronic low back pain

Rodondi, Pierre-Yves ; Bill, Anne-Sylvie ; Danon, Nadia ; Dubois, Julie ; Pasquier, Jérôme ; Matthey-de-l'Endroit, Florence ; Herzig, Lilli ; Burnand, Bernard

In: Journal of Pain Research, 2019, vol. Volume 12, p. 2101–2112

To investigate among primary care patients and their physicians in western Switzerland the prevalence of use, perceived usefulness, and communication about common treatments for chronic or recurrent low back pain (crLBP) including complementary medicine (CM). Patients and methods: A cross-sectional cluster observational study involving 499 crLBP patients visiting 45 primary care physicians...