Patients' and primary healthcare professionals' perceptions regarding chronic low back pain and its management in Spain: a qualitative study.

Diagnosing and treating chronic low back pain is compromised due to differing expectations and the communication barriers that exist between healthcare professionals and their patients. Primary healthcare professionals should be aware of the power of their explanations and recommendations to patients.Implications for RehabilitationPrimary healthcare professionals should negotiate treatments with patients and adapt them to their individual needs, according to a Patient-Centered approach and the biopsychosocial model of pain.Primary healthcare professionals should explain to patients the underlying mechanisms and multifactorial nature of chronic low back pain.Primary healthcare professional-patient communication needs to be improved to help patients to better understand their chronic condition.The healthcare professionals in Spain should be more trained into the (bio)psychosocial model of long-term pain, stop searching for non-evident pathologies and change their biomedical beliefs.