Influence of Health Determinants on Physical Exercise Therapy With a Neurocognitive Focus on Chronic Low Back Pain

Influence of Health Determinants and Therapeutic Alliance on the Effectiveness of a Pain Neuroscience Education Combined With Motor Control Training With Neurocognitive Focus on Chronic Lumbar Pain in a Population of Professional Caregivers

Protocols in which pain neuroscience education is combined with physical exercise have shown recently greater effectiveness in the treatment of low back pain in comparison to protocols based only on one of the two approaches. The professional caregiver has a high incidence of low back pain related to the specific aspects of this collection with the low physical condition, the typical tasks performed and other psychosocial aspects. Individual characteristics of these caregivers may condition the effectiveness of the therapy as well as demographic aspects or the alliance between patient and physiotherapist. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of certain health determinants on the effectiveness of a therapy that combines pain neuroscience education and motor control training from a neurocognitive perspective on chronic low back pain in a population of professional caregivers in Bages, analyzing the reduction of low back pain, the improvement of functionality, the reduction of muscle movement and the improvement of muscle coordination.

It will be a quasi-experimental pre-post design, prospective, with a control group, lasting 3 months. The intervention will be performed using a sample of professional caregivers, and the data will be collected before the intervention, at the end of the intervention, and 3-6 months after the intervention. Pain, functionality, conducts of fear/avoidance, and muscular coordination will be analyzed

Inclusion Criteria:

• Of legal age
• Participants who present lumbar or lumbosacral pain all the time for more than 1 year
• Score of 6 on the Visual Analogical Scale
• Have been at work (same position) longer than 1 year

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other alterations and diseases of the musculoskeletal system that may interfere with the results of the intervention.
• Pregnancy during the study time
• Older than 65 years old