Back Schools for chronic non-specific low back pain.

CONCLUSIONS: Due to the low- to very low-quality of the evidence for all treatment comparisons, outcomes, and follow-up periods investigated, it is uncertain if Back School is effective for chronic low back pain. Although the quality of the evidence was mostly very low, the results showed no difference or a trivial effect in favour of Back School. There are myriad potential variants on the Back School approach regarding the employment of different exercises and educational methods. While current evidence does not warrant their use, future variants on Back School may have different effects and will need to be studied in future RCTs and reviews.
PMID: 28770974 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Parreira P, Heymans MW, van Tulder MW, Esmail R, Koes BW, Poquet N, Lin CC, Maher CG Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research