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Abstract
Background: Chronic
pain is a common clinical
feature that accompanies osteopathy.
Knowledge and attitudes of
both patients and their treating
clinicians would influence
the patients’ outcomes
and pain control.
Objective:
This systematic review will
provide an understanding of
the knowledge and attitudes
of patients and clinicians
towards musculoskeletal pain
accompanying osteopathy.
Method:
Different keywords were used
to search the medical literature,
including: “knowledge”
OR “Attitude” AND
“Osteopathy” AND
“Pain” AND “patient”
OR “clinician.”
The search databases included
Medline, Embase PubMed, and
SCOPUS. The following step
was reviewing the results
to ensure that they were original
research articles that examined
the knowledge and attitudes
about chronic musculoskeletal
pain with osteopathy. All
the eligible studies needed
to mention the type of participants
examined (either patients
or clinicians).
Result:
A total of 89 studies were
obtained. After removing review
articles and choosing original
research studies solely, 11
studies appeared from the
filtration process. Eight
research articles were eligible.
All the included studies had
a quantitative cross-sectional
design. Only health care professionals
were asked about osteopathy,
where all the studies included
osteopaths from different
countries, except one study
that included physiotherapists.
Osteopaths knew about the
benefits of osteopathy, particularly
for lower back pain; however,
their knowledge about biopsychosocial
factors requires improvement.
Conclusion:
Knowledge about osteopathy
benefits for controlling chronic
musculoskeletal pain should
be improved even among osteopaths.
Awareness campaigns about
osteopathy are also needed
for patients in orthopedic
and physiotherapy clinics.
Keywords:
Knowledge, Attitude, Chronic
pain, Musculoskeletal, Osteopathy.
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