Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for chronic low back pain: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the effect of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation on clinically relevant outcomes in patients with chronic low back pain.

Design

Systematic literature review of randomised controlled trials.

Participants

A total of 1964 patients with disabling low back pain for more than three months.

Main outcome measures

Pain, function, employment, quality of life, and global assessments.

Results

Ten trials reported on a total of 12 randomised comparisons of multidisciplinary treatment and a control condition. There was strong evidence that intensive multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation with functional restoration improves function when compared with inpatient or outpatient non-multidisciplinary treatments. There was moderat

SUBMITTER: Guzman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC33389 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature