Physiotherapy compared with advice for low back pain: Targeting “physical factors” alone is not evidence based practice

EDITOR—Frost et al's conclusion that “routine physiotherapy” based on physical factors was no more effective than one session of assessment and advice from a physiotherapist in the management of low back pain is not surprising.1 But the defensive nature of the responses to this research is.2 3 This defensiveness arises partly from the perceived rivalry between …