title: Educational needs of health professionals in the treatment of chronic low back pain.
abstract: Behaviour Therapy is not used to a great extent in the physiotherapy management of chronic low back pain; yet the clinical research literature indicates that behavioural techniques may assist the maintenance of treatment gains. Two questionnaires were devised for hospital-based physiotherapy graduates to assess knowledge of behaviour therapy techniques and their relevance to physiotherapy management of the patient with chronic low back pain. Third-year undergraduate physiotherapy students who had just completed their Behaviour Therapy course at Cumberland College of Health Sciences, constituted the comparison group. Results showed that the graduates and physiotherapy students had comparable levels of knowledge. Both groups believed that the physiotherapist's use of behaviour therapy techniques was primarily for the purposes of improving the patient's daily activity and muscular state. Physiotherapy training for the management of this difficult patient group is discussed.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Mackenzie
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Chinnery