Background & Aims
Chronic low back pain is one of the most disabling musculoskeletal disorders in the worldwide. Chronic Non specific low back pain has increased by more than 50% in the last 25 years globally. Interdisciplinary pain management is recommended for the patients with severe/high-impact chronic nonspecific low back pain. Such programs are expensive, not easily accessible and have limited effect therefore new cost effective strategies are warranted. Cognitive functional therapy has shown promising results but has not been compared with interdisciplinary pain management approach. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate efficacy of cognitive functional therapy in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.
Methods
The data bases used for searching articles were Pub Med, Research Gate, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Embase, PEDRO, Cochrane. The data has been collected 22 articles from the past 5yrs. Selecting Criteria includes Non specific Chronic Low back pain. Out of 22 articles,10 articles were included for the review. These articles were reviewed in PICOTS Model.
Results
The results indicates that efficacy of cognitive functional therapy in chronic non specific low back pain improves significance in reducing pain ,disability both in short-term and long-term period and also improves the Quality of Life as compared with other interventions.
Conclusions
The current evidence suggests that Cognitive functional therapy shows early promise on an effective intervention to reduce pain and disability as well as improving Quality of life, depression,anxiety, fear avoidance belief of physical activity.
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Presenting Author
Balamurugan Balakrishnan
Poster Authors
balamurugan balakrishnan
MPT
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higer Education and Research
Lead Author
Topics
- Mechanisms: Psychosocial and Biopsychosocial