Pain Education in Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05697848
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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)
The Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) aims to reconceptualize pain from a marker of tissue damage to a marker of the perceived need to protect body tissue. The purpose of this study is to verify the long-term efficacy (6 months) of a Pain Education treatment in patients with chronic low back pain, compared to a conventional treatment.
Study details
- Official title
- Pain Education: Treatment of Patients Affected by Chronic Low Back Pain, Randomized Controlled Study
- Conditions
- Low Back Pain
- Rehabilitation
- Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Physiotherapy combined with Pain Education
- Other: Physiotherapy
- Sponsor
- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA
- Start date
- 2021-10-04
- Primary completion
- 2023-07-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 18 * Patients with low back pain of musculoskeletal origin for at least 3 months * Patients free from NSAID and/or opioid analgesic therapy for at least 1 month * Years of education: over 13 * Italian mother-tongue Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of neurological symptoms on provocative tests * Recent surgical procedure * Patients suffering from fibromyalgia or other rheumatological pathology * Psychiatric pathologies
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05697848