The Sano study: justification and detailed description of a multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation programme in patients with chronic low back pain.
Anne Mette Schmidt, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Trine Bay Laurberg, Berit Schiøttz-Christensen, Charlotte Ibsen, Kirstine Bak Gulstad, Thomas Maribo
PMID 29879847WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes how a multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for chronic low back pain was designed and structured.
It reports no patient outcomes or trial results, so it offers no evidence on whether the programme works.
What this paper is
This paper describes the development and structure of a rehabilitation programme for chronic low back pain, detailing its components and the rationale for its design. It does not report the results of a trial or any patient outcomes, so there are no findings to act on clinically.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this paper shows the rehabilitation programme is effective. It only describes the plan and the components of the intervention; the results of the randomized controlled trial testing it are not reported here.