Brief intervention, physical exercise and cognitive behavioural group therapy for patients with chronic low back pain (The CINS trial)

ConclusionThere was no support for an effect of the added group CBT or group PE treatments to a brief cognitive intervention in this study of patients on sick leave due to low back pain. SignificanceOur study demonstrates that treatments that previously were found to be effective and are included in most treatment guidelines, such as group cognitive‐behavior therapy and exercise, were not effective in this given context compared to a brief, cognitive intervention. This implies that an optimized brief intervention is difficult to outperform in patients on sick leave due to low back pain.
Source: European Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research