Acceptance, committed action, anxiety and depression, and their relationship to physical disability in chronic low back pain

Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a prevalent health problem which has proved difficult to manage. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a newer generation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which has shown effectiveness for chronic pain. Normally delivered by psychologists, it has not been tested as a physiotherapy delivered intervention and now requires evaluation in a CLBP population. An ongoing randomised controlled trial will compare outcomes of conventional physiotherapy with physiotherapy informed by ACT (PACT) in CLBP.
Source: Manual Therapy - Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Source Type: research