Applying contemporary neuroscience in exercise interventions for chronic spinal pain: treatment protocol.
Anneleen Malfliet, Jeroen Kregel, Mira Meeus, Barbara Cagnie, Nathalie Roussel, Mieke Dolphens, Lieven Danneels, Jo Nijs
PMID 28736211WHAT IT FOUND
No patient outcomes are reported.
This paper only describes a planned treatment protocol.
What this paper is
This is a treatment protocol paper describing a pain neuroscience education and cognition-targeted exercise program planned for an ongoing randomized trial in nonspecific chronic spinal pain. It contains no participant outcomes or effectiveness results, so there is nothing here to change practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this protocol as proof that pain neuroscience education and cognition-targeted exercise help chronic spinal pain. It reports no patient outcomes.