A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain in China
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Objective: Chronic back pain (CBP) affects people physiologically, psychologically，and socially. This study aimed to explore the experience of CBP patients who received massage treatment in China. Methods: This research used a qualitative content analysis method. 22 CBP outpatients were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews with the purposive sampling. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: This study identified five main categories, 13 subcategories, and 68 codes. The five categories were: (1) cognition of CBP, (2) impact of CBP, (3) therapeutic perspective, (4) factors hindering access to treatment, and (5) coping with CBP. Conclusions: The experience of patients with chronic low back pain provides multidimensional intervention targets and humanistic value orientation for manual therapy, systematically demonstrating the integrative value of tuina therapy across biological, psychological, and social dimensions, while proposing a patient-centered CBP management model that offers a broader perspective for outcome assessment.
