Neuroscience Pain Education in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain

The Effectiveness of Neuroscience Pain Education Combining Manual Therapy in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: a Single-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

The cognitive educational strategies such as neuroscience pain education, has been a popular and promising technique for treatment patients with chronic pain. However, there are not sufficient randomized controlled and blinded studies to explore clinical effectiveness of these techniques. Therefore, the aim of this study was determining the short- and mid-term effects of neuroscience pain education combined with manual therapy and home exercise on pain level, disability, and kinesiophobia in patients with chronic low back pain.

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
• Used pregabalin and gabapentin derivatives,

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous spine or lower extremity surgery
• Severe osteoporosis
• Spondyloarthropathy
• Spondylolisthesis
• Lumbar stenosis
• Systemic inflammatory diseases