Chronic Pain-Assessment of Orthopedic Physical Therapists ' Knowledge and Attitudes

Orthopedic physical therapists ' knowledge of pain mechanisms and methods of pain management and their attitudes toward working with patients with benign chronic pain were studied. A random sample of 500 members of the American Physical Theram Association's Section on Orlhopaedics received by mail a %-item Literature Revlew among practicing orthopedic physical therapists and to describe the atti-The purposes of this study were to tudes these therapists hold in regard measure the knowledge of pain to treating patients with benign mechanisms and pain management chronic pain secondary to orthopedi