Targeted interventions to prevent transitioning from acute to chronic low back pain in high-risk patients: development and delivery of a pragmatic training course of psychologically informed physical therapy for the TARGET trial

Table 1 Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy Training Course Learning Objectives.

1.	Summarize relationships between pain neuroscience, pain models, and the development and maintenance of chronic low back pain.
2.	Identify patients at high risk for transitioning from acute to chronic low back pain.
3.	Apply targeted treatment for patients at high risk for transitioning from acute to chronic low back pain.
4.	Understand primary assumptions of CBT and specific skills associated with CBT based interventions.
5.	Recognize effective communication skills and be able to implement as a key component to PIPT.
6.	Differentiate key principles and application between graded activity and graded exposure.
7.	Review the Low Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association to become familiar with: 1) ICF-based classifications; 2) symptoms; 3) impairments; and 4) suggested intervention strategies.
8.	Be able to implement PIPT practice principles for patients with low back pain.

PIPT Psychologically Informed Physical Therapy, CBT Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, ICF International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health

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