The effect of an integrated multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme alternating inpatient interventions with home-based activities for patients with chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effectiveness of an integrated rehabilitation programme with an existing rehabilitation programme in patients with chronic low back pain.

Design

A single-centre, pragmatic, two-arm parallel, randomized controlled trial (1:1 ratio).

Setting

A rheumatology inpatient rehabilitation centre in Denmark.

Subjects

A total of 165 adults (aged ⩾ 18 years) with chronic low back pain.

Interventions

An integrated rehabilitation programme comprising an alternation of three weeks of inpatient stay and 12 weeks of home-based activities was compared with an existing rehabilitation programme of four weeks of inpatient stay.

Main measures

Patient-reported outcomes were collected at baseline and at the 26-week follow-up. The primary outcome w

SUBMITTER: Schmidt AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029437 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature