The effect of graded activity and pain education (GAPE): an early post-surgical rehabilitation programme after lumbar spinal fusion-study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with chronic low back pain undergoing lumbar spinal fusion (LSF) are physically inactive and thereby at risk of poor health. Barriers to being physically active need to be acknowledged in post-surgical rehabilitation. The primary objective of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to examine the effect of an early active intervention consisting of graded activity and pain education (GAPE) on sedentary behaviour in a population of patients undergoing LSF. The secondary objective is to examine the effect of GAPE on disability, pain, fear of movement, self-efficacy for exercise, and health-related quality of life.

Methods

The study is an RCT planned to include 144 patients undergoing LSF at 1-2 levels for low back pain caused by degeneration of the lumbar

SUBMITTER: Tegner H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7493936 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature