SynthesisActa neurologica Belgica2024
Body awareness disturbances in patients with low back pain: a systematic review.
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- The COMPASS framework for chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder: navigating the transition from threat to safety through yoga.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Body Image and Body Awareness Interventions in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review of Effects on Pain-Related Variables and Emotional Distress.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Evaluating Body Awareness: A Systematic Review Using the COSMIN Methodology.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The importance of recovering body awareness in post-stroke rehabilitation: insights from clinical case reports.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe pain-neuroscience literature has recently emphasized body perception or awareness. Impaired body perception results have been reported in many different chronic pain problems. Studies have reported that individuals with low back pain (LBP) also have body perception disturbances related to the lumbar spine.
objectivesThis review aimed to determine the evidence that body awareness alterations in individuals with LBP.
designSystematic review.
methodStudies were searched in PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Pedro databases up to January 2021. Each database was searched independently, according to a specific iteration research string. The protocol record of the systematic review was entered into the PROSPERO system.
resultsNine studies were included in this research. We found evidence to support more perceptual impairments in patients with LBP than healthy counterparts. In addition, the results of the studies showed an association between disrupted body awareness and pain severity, pain catastrophizing, and disability.
conclusionsBody perception disturbances in LBP seem to be a promising path that needs to be further explored, with the ultimate goal of developing treatment contents targeting body awareness as a more comprehensive and valid evaluation and therapeutic method.
trial registrationThe registration number was CRD42021235934.
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