Effective Reassurance in Primary Care of Low Back Pain: What Messages From Clinicians are Most Beneficial at Early Stages?

Discussion: Reassurance of patients in early phases of persistent back pain might improve from affective and cognitive parts of communication and individually tailored information. Subgroup differences with respect to different prognosis, associated patterns of adaptive or maladaptive pain coping, and levels of health-promoting versus harmful physical activity should be considered more carefully.
Source: The Clinical Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Special Topic Series Source Type: research