Evidence - Based Practice - Causes for the Low Back Pain

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Clinical Question1

Literature Search2

Databases2

Peer - Reviewed Articles3

Relevant Article5

Lessons from Evidence - Based Practices6

References8

Evidence - Based Practice - Causes for the Low Back Pain

Introduction

Evidence - Based Practices (EBP) is a concept that was initially started from the medical practices. In the past few years, it was also adopted by the behavioral sciences and educational fields. The concept of evidence - based practices was adopted because of the applications that were needed for the treatment of medical illness and diseases (Hasselstrom, Liu-Palmgren & Rasjo-Wraak 2002).

The study will be analyzing five articles that are listed below and a brief overview of each article is given in the peer - reviewed articles. Further, we have identified one of the articles that were selected on the basis of its methodology, results and purpose of the study, which was different when compared with other studies. Also, we will be discussing the significance of evidence-based studies for further studies.

Clinical Question

The clinical question, selected for this study, is to determine the causes for the low back pain with the help of evidence - based practices. It is essential for every human being that an accurate assessment of agonizing pain is done for the development of an effective pain management plan. Physical therapist plays a vital role in the assessment of pain, owing to the nature of their relationship with patients. However, causes of back pain and its management is a challenging task due to the subjectivity and multidimensionality of the pain experience.

Literature Search

There are various reasons because of which back pain is caused. These factors might include various structural problems of the back, inflammation, soft tissue and muscle injury, secondary responses for other diseases and condition, imbalance in body mechanics, social and psychological factors and other related variables. In addition, there are many patients who have the issue of low back pain, but their causes for the pain are not identified easily that could help the physical therapist to reduce the pain (George, Bialosky & Fritz 2004). Sometimes, physical therapists associate such pain to unknown musculoskeletal factors. The term “idiopathic” explains such factors, which means that the cause if entirely unknown. It is essential to identify the kind of problem that caused chronic low back pain in such patients. For this purpose, a diagnosis may be considered as helpful to guide the therapeutic strategy.

Databases

The databases that have been searched for finding the relevant data on the clinical question are listed below:

EBSCOhost: It provided relevant data on the researched question. Further, it lacks the ability of providing current studies on the clinical question. However, the gathered data from this library proved to be useful for understanding the clinical question and studying it.

PubMed: PubMed also provided relevant data, but most of the files were not accessible that limited the research of the topic on the library.

PreCINAHL: The library has provided up-to date and most recent studies on the clinical ...