Open-label Placebo in Manual Therapy

Open-label Placebo in Manual Therapies: a Pilot Study.

to investigate the effects of placebo in patients affected by low-back pain.

Inclusion Criteria:

Adult patients (+18 years) who complain of chronic non-specific low back pain for at least 3 months with or without pain exacerbations at the time of recruitment, will be included.

-Patients will need to have a diagnosis of low back pain made by a physician

Exclusion Criteria:

• pathologies such as ankylosing spondylitis, infections, fractures, tumors or metastases.
• Pregnant women
• patients with previous spinal surgery or undergoing cortisone therapy in the 6 months prior to the trial
• diseases that may affect the interpretation of results such as fibromyalgia
• patients currently being treated by other specialists or other manual therapists