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Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
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- 'The Second Arrow': A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration of What Can Be Learned From One Long COVID Journey.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Beyond pain intensity: Validating single-item pain bothersomeness measures.The journal of pain · 2025Article
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- Implementation outcomes of a biopsychosocial model pain management protocol in chronic musculoskeletal pain.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy for chronic back pain: hypothesis and trial rationale.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Home-Use and Portable Biofeedback Lowers Anxiety and Pain in Chronic Pain Subjects.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2023Article
- Reducing opioid use for chronic non-cancer pain in primary care using an evidence-based, theory-informed, multistrategic, multistakeholder approach: a single-arm time series with segmented regression.BMJ quality & safety · 2023Article
- Psychophysiologic Symptom Relief Therapy (PSRT) for Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2023Article
- Change in Pain-Related Anxiety Mediates the Effects of Psychophysiologic Symptom Relief Therapy (PSRT) on Pain Disability for Chronic Back Pain: Secondary Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
introductionChronic back pain is the leading cause of disability in the United States. Based on the hypothesis that nonspecific back pain may be rooted in a psychophysiologic etiology, we propose a new approach to chronic back pain.
objectivesA pilot study was conducted to assess whether psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy (PSRT) can reduce disability and back pain bothersomeness for patients with chronic back pain.
methodsThis was a three-armed, randomized trial for adults with nonspecific chronic back pain that compared PSRT with usual care and an active comparator (mindfulness-based stress reduction [MBSR]). Psychophysiologic symptom relief therapy-randomized participants received a 12-week (36 hours) course based on the psychophysiological model of pain. All groups were administered validated questionnaires at baseline and at 4, 8, 13, and 26 weeks. The primary outcome was the reduction in pain disability measured by the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire.
resultsThe mean Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire score for the PSRT group (n = 11) decreased from 9.5 (±4.3 SDs) to 3.3 (±5.1) after 26 weeks which was statistically significant compared with both MBSR (n = 12) (
conclusionPsychophysiologic symptom relief therapy is a feasible and potentially highly beneficial treatment for patients with nonspecific back pain.
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