[Back school as a preventive measure against backache: method of intervention or neurotigenic method?]

The therapeutic objectives of conventional back schools are a) instruction of people with and without back pain to use their backs according to currently accepted ergonomic principles, b) improvement of the cardiovascular performance of back school participants and c) acquisition of knowledge of simple methods of pain and stress management. Due to the diversity of back pain causes and the biopsychosocial complexity of back pain as the therapeutic target, back schools can never be the sole solution of a multifaceted problem. The prime objectives of this review are to describe the recent back school curriculums and to define possible therapeutic components of future back schools.