Telephone coaching can increase activity levels for people with non-chronic low back pain: a randomised trial

30 patients who underwent physiotherapy participated in this study to determine if telephone health coaching provided adequate motivation and effective goal-setting to support patients in their struggle against non-specific low back pain. Half of the patients received phone calls from physiotherapists trained in health coaching. The results suggest that health coaching can be an effective tool in improving Patient Specific Functional Scale scores and recovery expectation, but evidence did not support the addition of health coaching to physiotherapy for relief of pain and disability.