A Targeted Approach to Evaluating the Golfing Athlete with Low Back Pain: A Resident's Case Report.

This is a case report, so cause and effect cannot be assumed. The patient received manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, home exercises, and education together, so the contribution of individual components cannot be separated. The authors state there is no way to know whether another treatment approach would have produced similar results. The plan of care was shortened by COVID-19 restrictions, and some plank goals were not met. Exercise prescription based on the TPI screen may vary between therapists. The revised ODI change could not be judged clinically significant because the minimal clinically important difference was not established for non-specific low back pain. Some deficits persisted, including inability to fully dissociate hip movement from the lower back and several swing characteristics.

The author reports no conflicts of interest.

Do not conclude that the TPI screen and regional interdependence treatment caused the golfer's pain relief. This was a single person, and he received manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, home exercises, and education together, so the report cannot separate what worked.