Pain Neuroscience Education for Older Adults

Aveiro University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Pain neuroscience education and exercise; Other: Usual Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04528160

PNE4OlderAdults

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using pain neuroscience education for older adults with chronic pain from primary care services. It will have a group of participants receiving pain neuroscience education and exercise and a group receiving usual care.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• be able to read and write and have chronic pain (defined as pain lasting 3 months or more and felt at least once a week during these 3 months ) anywhere in the body.

Exclusion criteria

• presence of pathology of the nervous or cardiovascular systems, cancer, or having had a surgery in the last 6 months or the presence of a condition for which the practice of therapeutic exercise could be contraindicated.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain neuroscience education and exercise

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive an 8-week intervention (1 session per week) of pain neuroscience education and exercise. PNE will be conducted in line with international guidelines and will cover the neurophysiology of pain, transition from acute to chronic pain and the nervous system ability to modulate the pain experience. Exercise will include mobility, balance and strength exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Pain neuroscience education and exercise

Usual care

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group will receive usual care administered by general practitioners at primary care.

Treatment:

Other: Usual Care