The Effect of Therapeutic Neuroscience Education on Chronic Low Back Pain

Pamukkale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy alone; Other: physiotherapy and education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04099576

60116787-020/8825

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ongoing fear and catastrophization in people with chronic low back pain (CLBP) causes increased pain, disability and kinesiophobia, and decreased endurance of trunk muscles. Nowadays, recurrent low back pain complaints are increasing day by day. Besides the use of electrophysical agents and exercise in the treatment of chronic low back pain, education methods used to reduce the negative effects of psychosocial factors are important for healing.

Although there were studies about the combination of Therapeutic Neuroscience Education (TNE) with exercise in CLBP, there are no studies that combine electrophysical agents, exercise and TNE methods in the literature. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate whether TNE combined with physiotherapy consisting of electrophysical modalities and home program exercise is superior to only physiotherapy in patients with CLBP.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The inclusion criteria were:

• aged between 18-60 years
• to have CLBP ˃ 3 months duration
• to have independent walking ability
• to be literate in Turkish.

Exclusion criteria

• to have vertebral compression fractures
• to have transitional vertebrae
• to have an underlying tumoral, rheumatologic or inflammatory disease
• to have trauma, surgical history
• to be pregnant or less than six months postpartum period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Physiotherapy plus Education

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group received a three-week program consisting of 15 sessions of physiotherapy and six sessions of therapeutic neuroscience education.

Treatment:

Other: physiotherapy and education

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group received a three-week program consisting of 15 sessions of physiotherapy alone. .

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy alone