[Design of an educational tool for Primary Care patients with chronic non-specific low back pain].

ABSTRACT: Current scientific evidence on the management of chronic non-specific low back pain highlights the benefits of physical exercise. This goal is frequently undermined due to lack of education of the subjects on the multifactorial, benign, and non-specific nature of low back pain, which can lead to a chronic disease with genuine psychosocial risk factors. Its influence may not only interfere with individual decision to adopt more adaptive coping behaviors, but also with the endogenous mechanisms of pain neuromodulation. Thus, the educational strategies and control of these factors have become important objectives to be incorporated into the management of the disorder and research guidelines. This paper presents the theoretical models and the scientific basis on which it has based the design o

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Cerrillo JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6985600 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature