Bio dominates psych

摘要

Clinicians carry out more detailed biomedical than psychosocial interventions with patients who present with acute back pain and multiple psychosocial risk factors.rnThe finding comes from a study, 'Does the Presence of Psychosocial "Yellow Flags" Alter Patient-Provider Communication for Work-Related, Acute Low Back Pain?' published recently in the US Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM).rnResearchers recorded exchanges between patients and providers. The patients comprised 97 working adults, mainly men, with a median age of 38.