Pain Education in Chronic Low Back Pain

Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Pain; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy combined with Pain Education; Other: Physiotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05697848

CE2556

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) aims to reconceptualize pain from a marker of tissue damage to a marker of the perceived need to protect body tissue.

The purpose of this study is to verify the long-term efficacy (6 months) of a Pain Education treatment in patients with chronic low back pain, compared to a conventional treatment.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age over 18
• Patients with low back pain of musculoskeletal origin for at least 3 months
• Patients free from NSAID and/or opioid analgesic therapy for at least 1 month
• Years of education: over 13
• Italian mother-tongue

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of neurological symptoms on provocative tests
• Recent surgical procedure
• Patients suffering from fibromyalgia or other rheumatological pathology
• Psychiatric pathologies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain Education group

Experimental group

Description:

The patients of the experimental group will undergo pain education in addition to individual physiotherapy ( manual therapy and active exercises ).

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy combined with Pain Education

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patients of the control group will undergo individual physiotherapy ( manual therapy and active exercises ).

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy