ReviewJournal of pain research2025
Restorative Neurostimulation for Patients with Mechanical Chronic Low Back Pain and Impaired Neuromuscular Control of the Lumbar Spine | A New Treatment Paradigm.
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2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Restorative neurostimulation of the lumbar multifidus muscles improves mobility, strength, pain and disability in patients with mechanical chronic low back pain.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026Article
- Conditioned pain modulation, cortical imbalance, and arthrogenic muscle inhibition: an integrative model with implications for exercise in chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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Abstract
Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a symptom of an underlying pathology. There are distinct phenotypes of CLBP, including neuropathic, nociplastic and nociceptive, or mechanical CLBP. We present a comprehensive clinical overview of restorative neurostimulation for refractory, disabling, mechanical CLBP. Impaired neuromuscular control and consequent degeneration of the multifidus muscles are implicated in the development and persistence of mechanical low back pain. Restorative neurostimulation targets these processes and aims to reverse these degenerative changes in the muscles and mechanoreceptor in the muscle spindles and, therefore, restore motor control of the multifidus muscles, playing an important role for functional stability of the lumbar spine. We detail the theory and rationale of the technology as well as appropriate patient identification and current trial evidence in this comprehensive overview of restorative neurostimulation.
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