The effect of an integrated multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for patients with chronic low back pain: Long-term follow up of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the long-term effectiveness of an integrated rehabilitation programme with an existing rehabilitation programme, in terms of back-specific disability, in patients with chronic low back pain.

Design

A single-centre, pragmatic, two-arm parallel, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

A rheumatology rehabilitation centre in Denmark.

Subjects

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

Interventions

An integrated programme (a pre-admission day, two weeks at home, two weeks inpatient followed by home-based activities, plus two 2-day inpatient booster sessions, and six-month follow-up visit) was compared with an existing programme (four-week inpatient, and six-month follow-up visit).

Main measure

The primary ou

SUBMITTER: Schmidt AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7874370 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature