Does Pain Self-efficacy influence Initial Forward Bending in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain following Exercise? A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Chronic low back pain affects how individuals bend. Whether pain self-efficacy, a term describing one's confidence in their ability to perform activities despite experiencing pain, affects how much people with chronic low back pain bend their lumbar spine and hips in response to exercise is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate whether baseline pain self-efficacy influenced either lumbar or hip flexion range of motion over the first quarter of forward bending post-exercise intervention.

Study design

Cohort study. # MethodsNew patients (aged 18-65 years old) presenting to a physiotherapy clinic with moderate-severe chronic low back pain-related disability who had not undergone spinal or lower limb surgery underwent assessment of pain self-effica

SUBMITTER: McManus F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12579918 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature