The Effect of Two Short Education Programs for Nonspecific Low Back Pain in a Workers' Health Care Organization

Study of the Effect of Two Short Education Programs for the Treatment of Nonspecific Low Back Pain in Patients Seen at a Workers' Health Care Organization

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of two different types of health education programs on the disability, beliefs related to low back pain and duration of sick leave in patients seen at a workers' health care organization

Inclusion Criteria:

• low back pain patients, with or without referred or radiated pain
• no systemic disease or criteria for referral to surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• inability to fill out the questionnaires and scales
• bedridden
• rheumatologic inflammatory disease, cancer or fibromyalgia
• suspicion of fibromyalgia
• spinal fracture