Neuroscience Pain Education in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain; Neuroscience Pain Education; Manual Therapy

Treatments: Other: home exercises; Other: neuroscience pain education; Other: manual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03886636

KutahyaMSU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The cognitive educational strategies such as neuroscience pain education, has been a popular and promising technique for treatment patients with chronic pain. However, there are not sufficient randomized controlled and blinded studies to explore clinical effectiveness of these techniques. Therefore, the aim of this study was determining the short- and mid-term effects of neuroscience pain education combined with manual therapy and home exercise on pain level, disability, and kinesiophobia in patients with chronic low back pain.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteered to participate in the study.
• Patients with 18-65 years
• Had low back pain for at least 6 months,
• Reported pain severity of 5 or greater according to the numeric pain rating scale
• Used pregabalin and gabapentin derivatives,

Exclusion criteria

• Previous spine or lower extremity surgery
• Severe osteoporosis
• Spondyloarthropathy
• Spondylolisthesis
• Lumbar stenosis
• Systemic inflammatory diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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69 participants in 3 patient groups

Neuroscience pain education group

Experimental group

Description:

in Group 1, participants received Neuroscience pain education, manual therapy and a home exercise program.

Treatment:

Other: manual therapy

Other: neuroscience pain education

Other: home exercises

Manual therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

in Group 2, participants received manual therapy and a home exercise program.

Treatment:

Other: manual therapy

Other: home exercises

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

in Group 3, participants received home exercise program only.

Treatment:

Other: home exercises