Pain Neuroscience Education in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03100721
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is highly prevalent, disabling and with high socio-economic costs, with many negative effects on quality of life. CMP affects the ability to perform work, social, recreational and domestic tasks by changing the mood and concentration of this population that suffers. In a study carried out in 2010, 17% of the Spanish population had experienced pain in the last month and according to the severity of symptoms 12% felt severe , 64% moderate and 24% mild pain. In this same study it is specified that 61% was due to back pain, 29% due to neck pain and 23% due to shoulder pain. Pain neuroscience education (PNE) has been shown as an effective treatment strategy in increasing knowledge and understanding of neurobiology, neurophysiology and pain processing, modifying beliefs about it, improving patient skills and encouraging to the accomplishment of physical and social activities in different chronic pathologies.
Study details
- Official title
- Pain Neuroscience Education as a Complement to Physiotherapy in Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: a Non-randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: PNE+Physiotherapy
- Procedure: Physiotherapy
- Sponsor
- University of Malaga
- Collaborators
- Fundación Pública Andaluza Progreso y Salud
- Start date
- 2018-04-04
- Primary completion
- 2020-01-22
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age between 18-65 years * Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain according to the ACCTION-APS Pain Taxonomy (AAPT), included chronic axial musculoskeletal low back pain Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic postoperative musculoskeletal pain and chronic musculoskeletal pain related to a traumatic injury six months before the beginning of the trial * Inability to provide written informed consent and/or complete questionnaires in Spanish.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03100721