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Effectiveness of Pain Neuroscience Education Compared to a Conventional Education for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT04179708 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 88

Last updated 2025-12-23

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Summary

The hypothesis is that pain biology education, combined with a rehabilitation program, reduces disability to 3 months, compared to conventional spinal physiology education.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low-back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Pain Neuroscience Education

Intervention description Patients participate in a back school program including initial and final assessment, educational activities and therapeutic activities (eg. Physiotherapy, balneotherapy, physical activity, spine ergonomics, and so on) spread over 5 days. The therapeutic activities are the same in experimental and control group, only the educational activities differ. The educational activities represent 4 hours of intervention, ½ hours of educative initial assessment and ½ hour of educative final assessment. The content of Pain Neuroscience Education (experimental group) focuses on deconstruction of patho-anatomical and biomechanical believes, and the explanation of pain from the biology. This framework allows the introduction of coping strategies (eg gradual exposure to exercise, activity and physical activity) and regulation strategy (eg fragmentation of activity, stress management, and so on).

OTHER

Conventional education

assessment, educational activities and therapeutic activities (eg. Physiotherapy, balneotherapy, physical activity, spine ergonomics, and so on) spread over 5 days. The therapeutic activities are the same in experimental and control group, only the educational activities differ. The educational activities represent 4 hours of intervention, ½ hour of educative initial assessment and ½ hour of educative final assessment. The content of conventional education (control grou) focuses on patho-anatomical and biomechanical notions. This framework allows the introduction of protection strategies (eg education on good posture, good handling techniques, physical activity and therapeutic exercise in stretch and strenghten the spine in order to protect it).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Société Française de Physiothérapie (SFP).

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University Hospital, Lille

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Valérie Wieczorek, MD,PhD · University Hospital, Lille

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-06
Primary Completion
2024-02-10
Completion
2024-02-10

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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