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Background: One measure of care quality is a patient's level of satisfaction with their treatment. Maintaining a focus on patient satisfaction as a way to evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy is important. Providers of healthcare and researchers in the field of health services continue to place an emphasis on learning more about how to improve the quality of care they offer for their patients. Patients’ expectations of receiving good value for their time, money, and effort while receiving medical care are equally essential. Aim: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Arabic translation of the MedRisk questionnaire with regard to its face & content validity, factor analysis, feasibility, internal consistency reproducibility, as well as test-retest reliability. Subjects: 300 individuals, from both genders, aged from 18 to 60, all having LBP (mechanical or discogenic) were enrolled. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, investigators used an Arabic translation of the MedRisk Questionnaire to evaluate patient satisfaction. Results: The first expert panel found a value of 74.17% for face validity, whereas the second found a value of 97.50%. Experts agreed that the content validity was very high (97.5%). It was determined that 61.1% of the total variance in the questionnaire can be accounted for by a single factorial structure. Cronbach's was used to evaluate the internal consistency. Since then, the Cronbach has reduced from 0.939 to 0.937. The Arabic translation of the MedRisk questionnaire took an average of 5.33 minutes (SD 1.04) to complete and has excellent test-retest reliability. There were no substantial changes in either the floor or the ceiling. Conclusion: The Arabic translation of the MRPS is simplified, easy to apply, fast, as well as comprehensive scale. Consequently, it might be an appropriate scale for clinical evaluation of Arabic-speaking patients suffering from low back pain.