Manual Physical Therapists’ Use of Biopsychosocial History Taking in the Management of Patients with Back or Neck Pain in Clinical Practice

Table 1

Use of biopsychosocial history taking according to the SCEBS method: number of quality indicators (appendix) and number and percentage scores for actual and self-estimated use by manual physical therapists ( = 20) in patients with back or neck pain ( = 108).

History taking	Actual use	Self-estimated use
	(%)	(%)
S = Somatic dimension
10 indicators	106 (98.1)	108 (100)
Psychological dimension
C = Cognition
14 indicators	46 (42.5)	65 (60.1)
E = Emotion
6 indicators	29 (26.8)	65 (60.1)
B = Behavior
11 indicators	41 (37.9)	65 (60.1)
S = Social dimension
10 indicators	19 (17.6)	43 (39.8)