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Biomechanical Changes Related to Low Back Pain: An Innovative Tool for Movement Pattern Assessment and Treatment Evaluation in Rehabilitation
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[Pain staging, gender, and rehabilitation outcome in chronic low back pain. A pilot study]
P Hampel1, A Brunnberg, B Krohn-Grimberghe
1Faculty of Social Work and Health, University of Applied Sciences of Kiel, Sokratesplatz 2, 24149 Kiel, Deutschland. petra.hampel@fh-kiel.de
Background:
Current biopsychosocial models of the etiology and chronicity of back pain postulate a major impact of psychological factors in the process of back pain chronicity.
Participants And Methods:
Effects of gender and pain staging on rehabilitation outcome were examined immediately after and 3 and 6 months after rehabilitation in 121 patients with chronic low back pain (43 women, 78 men; M=48 years; ICD-10 diagnoses M54.4/M54.5). Pain was staged using the Mainz Pain Staging System.
Results:
In the short and mid term, patients in stage I and women benefited from rehabilitation. Rehabilitation outcomes tended not to be improved for men in stage III.
Conclusions:
Results support the notion that rehabilitation outcome is significantly influenced by pain staging and gender. Thus, clinical-psychological and gender-specific interventions should be incorporated in future therapeutic regimens to increase the rehabilitation outcomes in patients with higher chronicity of back pain.
