Effectiveness of Pain Neuroscience Education Compared to a Conventional Education for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain (EVAL-PNE)

University Hospital, Lille

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: Pain Neuroscience Education; Other: Conventional education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04179708

2018_79

2019-A01260-57 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis is that pain biology education, combined with a rehabilitation program, reduces disability to 3 months, compared to conventional spinal physiology education.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low Back Pain since more than 1 year
• Affiliated to Social Security Scheme
• Rolland Moris ≥ 8
• Start Back ≥ 4

Exclusion criteria

• Suspicion or proven case of serious pathology such as recent vertebral fracture (less than 6 months), infection, malignant tumors and / or radiculopathy.
• Have a history of rheumatic inflammatory disease
• Have a true radiculalgia (with or without radiculopathy)
• Have a scoliosis > 30° (if it is considered as a predominant contributor of pain's persistence).
• Rating of pain > 8/10
• Have had lumbar surgery in the past 12 months
• Have had an injection in the past 3 months
• Patients under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship)
• Pregnant patients
• Patients who are not able to understand, read or speak french
• Inability to receive informed information

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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88 participants in 2 patient groups

pain neuroscience education

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Conventional education

Other: Pain Neuroscience Education

Conventional education

Active Comparator group

Description:

patient receiving a "classical" education on spinal physiology and ergonomics

Treatment:

Other: Conventional education