NCT02220543

Chronic Low Back Pain Rehabilitation in Primary Care: an RCT

The Effectiveness of a Biopsychosocial Rehabilitation Program in Primary Care (Back on Track) Versus Primary Care as Usual in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain in Which Psychosocial Factors Minimally Influence Daily Life Functioning: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Maastricht University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a new primary care intervention "Back on Track" as compared to usual primary care in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain in which disability levels are moderate and the role of psychosocial factors to this disability is at maximum low (classified as WPN2).

Conditions

• Low Back Pain
• Chronic Pain
• Musculoskeletal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Back on Track intervention	Biopsychosocial primary care intervention based on multidisciplinary pain rehabiliation programs. The Back on Track intervention comprises 4 individual sessions and 8 group sessions.
OTHER	Primary care as usual	Regular physical therapy in primary care. Physical therapists are recommended by their profession (the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy) to work according to a profession-specific guideline for the treatment of patients with low back pain in primary care settings. Maximally 12 individual sessions (30 minutes each) for a maximum of 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2014-08-20
• Last updated: 2017-08-29

Locations

8 sites across 1 country: Netherlands