Cognitive functional therapy: A multidimensional, patient-centred intervention for chronic low back pain

Evgenia Trevlaki *, Alexandra-Xristara Papadoloulou and Emmanouil Trevlakis

International Hellenic University, Sindos, Greece.
 
Review
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2022, 07(01), 015–020.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2022.7.1.0184
Publication history: 
Received on 25 July  2022; revised on 29 August 2022; accepted on 31 August 2022
 
Abstract: 
The biomedical approaches managing low back pain have led to an exponential increase in health-care costs, with a concurrent increase in disability and chronicity, due to the lack of person-centred management and the failure to adopt a biopsychosocial framework based on contemporary evidence. The need of potential treatments to take the complexity of low back pain into account and encompass a representative range of medical disciplines and disciplines allied to medicine, combined so as to offer maximum benefit to patients has emerged. Cognitive Functional therapy is a multidimensional, patient-centred intervention that directly explores and manages cognitive, psychological and social factors deemed to be barriers to recovery in chronic low back pain. This review presents a new treatment method of chronic low back pain, cognitive functional therapy and describe the principals of this approach. This approach could potentially help physiotherapists who seek to treat chronic low back pain in a more multidisciplinary way.
 
Keywords: 
Cognitive functional therapy; Cognitive therapy; Cognitive component; Chronic pain; Low back pain
 
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