The Effect of Neuroscience Pain Education on Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

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Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain; Quality of Life; Pain
• Interventions: Other: Neuroscience pain education; Other: Traditional patient education; Other: Manual therapy

• Registration Number: NCT03901365
• Lead Sponsor: Kutahya Health Sciences University

Brief Summary

Manual therapy are among the therapeutic approaches frequently used in chronic low back pain (CLBP). Although most clinicians conduct patient education according biomedical model of pain, a relatively new approach which is referred to as neuroscience pain education (NPE) is promising in patients with CLBP. Therefore the aim of this study was to investigate whether NPE in patients with CLBP who treated via manual therapy technique will produce different outcomes in terms of pain severity and QoL compared to traditional patient education.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-06-30
• Study Completion: 2018-11-30
• Study First Submitted: 2019-04-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-04-02
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-03
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-09
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 35

Inclusion Criteria

• Volunteered to participate in the study.
• Patients with 18-65 years
• Had low back pain for at least 6 months,
• Reported pain severity of 5 or greater according to the numeric pain rating scale

Exclusion Criteria

• Previous spine or lower extremity surgery
• Severe osteoporosis
• Spondyloarthropathy
• Spondylolisthesis
• Lumbar stenosis
• Lumbar fractures
• Malign tumor

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group 1	Neuroscience pain education	Patient received manual therapy in addition neuroscience pain education sessions
Group 1	Manual therapy	Patient received manual therapy in addition neuroscience pain education sessions
Group 2	Traditional patient education	Patient received manual therapy in addition tradition education sessions
Group 2	Manual therapy	Patient received manual therapy in addition tradition education sessions

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Life (QOL): Turkish Short form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire	Change from Baseline SF-36 at 4th weeks.	All patients additionally completed Turkish Short form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire, 36-item generic self-administered instrument that consists of eight subscales relating to various aspects of the QoL: physical functioning, physical role, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, emotional role and mental health. The eight subscales are scored from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better health status

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)	Change from Baseline NPRS at 4th weeks.	The NPRS was used to assess the participants' pain levels. In the NPRS, patients are asked to verbally rate the severity of their pain on a scale from 0 to 10. The 11-point numeric scale ranges from '0' representing one pain extreme (e.g. "no pain") to '10' representing the other pain extreme.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Yoncali Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Hospital; 🇹🇷 Kutahya, Turkey