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Abstract
Low back pain is characterized by signs and symptoms such as pain, muscle weakness or contracture, stiffness of the nearby biomechanical area and, sometimes, it can cause irradiation of discomfort to other structures. This multiplicity of annoyances usually generates a difficulty for the clinical diagnosis and therefore for the clinical process since there are discrepancies in the care. Taking the foregoing into consideration, the objective of this research was to compare the diagnostic process of the population with non-specific low back pain treated at the Assistance Teaching Center of the Department of Physical Therapy (CeDAFi) of the School of Health Technologies of the University of Costa Rica. Taking as a reference the criteria established by the Dutch Association for Physical Therapy. The results obtained indicate that there is a significant gap between the information collected and the guidelines established by the Association. Particularly, the diagnostic phase is oriented to the collection of data related to the disease and has little relationship with the functionality paradigm, which leaves aside information about movement, limited activities and the person's psychosocial context. Therefore, despite the fact that an adequate filling of the files was observed, there were key aspects of the clinical history and the examination that were absent, which constitutes an important opportunity for improvement for the entire process of physiotherapeutic care as such.
Key words: Physical Therapy Specialty, Diagnosis, Evidence-Based Practice, Low Back Pain. Source: DeCS/MeSH.