Physiotherapy: Pain

(asked on 6th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the treatment of soft tissue therapists for patients in pain when no other solution is available.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd July 2020

No specific assessment of soft tissue therapy for patients in pain, when no other solution is available, has been made. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline ‘Low back pain and sciatica in over 16s: assessment and management’, published in 2016, sets out that clinicians should consider “manual therapy (spinal manipulation, mobilisation or soft tissue techniques such as massage) for managing low back pain with or without sciatica, but only as part of a treatment package including exercise, with or without psychological therapy”.

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