I’m sure that, like me, you get fed up with people saying “It’s all in the mind”, however new research carried out at Warwick Medical School, at the University of Warwick, has shown that there are ways to reduce the amount of lower back pain that we feel, without resorting to drugs or operations, as reported on the saga.co.uk website.
This, in very simple terms, involves training your mind to understand and cope with your pain.
Professor Sarah E Lamb and her team at the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit carried out a randomised controlled trial of 701 patients from GP practices in England, who had sub-acute or chronic low back pain.
The patients were randomly allocated to two groups: 468 people received a single session of advice on back pain, followed by one and a half hours of group cognitive behavioural intervention for six weeks. The 233 people in the control group received just the single session of advice.
The study, published in The Lancet, found that one year after the trial, the group that had received the cognitive behavioural treatment had improved significantly.
This study looks really promising, and I’m all for anything that helps without taking too many drugs, with possible addictive consequences.
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