General practitioner (GP) and neurologist approach to chronic lower back pain and its management problem

Master’s thesis: by I. Kaminskaitė General practitioner (GP) and neurologist approach to chronic low back pain (LBP) and its management problem. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, 2017. Objective. Assess the GP and neurologist approach to chronic low back pain, and pain management identities and differences. Objectives. Assess the GP approach to patients with chronic low back pain caused daily living disorders, means of treatment, diagnostic tests; assess neurologist approach to patients with chronic low back pain caused daily living disorders, means of treatment, diagnostic tests; compare GP and neurologist approach to the patient's daily life problems caused by chronic low back pain and this condition identities and differences. Methodology. Anonymous questionnaire survey was used for scientific investigation. It was surveyed 30 GP and 30 neurologists. Data collected was processed and analyzed with SPSS 17,0 statistical analysis software package. It was used nonparametric My-Whitney-Wilcoxon rank sums test for two independent samples and Pearson Chi-Square test. Data was considered statistically reliable when p