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Filter by:The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effectiveness of telerehabilitation-based and clinic-based methods to deliver a Core Stabilization Exercise Program with the Abdominal Drawing-In Maneuver Technique (CSE with ADIM) on pain intensity, functional ability, quality of life, and satisfaction in chronic low back pain patients with lumbar instability. The main question it aims to answer is: Is there a difference between the effectiveness of telerehabilitation-based and clinic-based CSE with ADIM on pain intensity, functional ability, quality of life, and satisfaction in chronic low back pain patients with lumbar instability? Participants will perform a 7-week core stabilization exercise with the abdominal drawing-in maneuver technique, consisting of an exercise program for 20-minute sessions with 3 sessions per week. These exercise programs will be provided to the participants via a weekly video call with the main researcher as a telerehabilitation program. At the first session of each week, the researcher will provide supervision via video call with the participant for the exercise program. The participants will perform the exercise by following the video demonstration. After completing weekly training, participants will perform their exercise routine as part of their daily home program. If there is a comparison group: researchers will compare The control group (clinical-base group) will be provided the 7-week core stabilization exercise with abdominal drawing-in maneuver technique, the same as the experimental group, but control groups received the exercise program at the clinic according to the usual methods. At the first session of each week, an appointment will be set, and then the specific exercise for each week will be delivered and trained by the main researcher at the clinic. After completing weekly training, participants will perform their exercise routine as part of their daily home program to see if there are any differences in pain intensity, functional ability, quality of life, and satisfaction in chronic low back pain patients with lumbar instability between the experimental and control groups.
Catastrophizing has emerged as the strongest independent predictor for persistent postsurgical pain. Although behavioral interventions, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), have been shown to reduce the impact of persistent pain, postsurgical patients have not historically been offered these interventions. The aim of our study is to examine whether an intervention targeting pain catastrophizing can reduce the risk of persistent pain and disability after spinal fusion. Our primary hypothesis is that a perioperative cognitive behavioral intervention with the goal to decrease anxiety and pain catastrophizing will decrease the risk of persistent pain and disability after spinal fusion surgery in high catastrophizing patients. To study this hypothesis the investigators will perform a prospective, randomized, controlled multicenter trial with 1:1 allocation, comparing 2 cohorts. Patients aged > 18 years/old, with a primary diagnosis of spinal stenosis, degenerative or isthmic spondylolisthesis or degenerative disc disease (DDD) determined by expert spine surgeons and selected for lumbar spinal fusion surgery with decompression will be screened for high levels of pain catastrophizing using the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). Patients with a score of ≥ 24 on the PCS who will consent to the study will be randomized to CBT (2 sessions preoperatively and 4 sessions postoperatively) plus usual care (experimental group) or usual care (control group). To limit expectation bias, an educational intervention will be added in the control group. Primary outcome is the Core Outcome Measure Index (COMI) at 12 months. Secondary outcomes are scores on 11-point Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for back and leg pain, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Patient-reported outcomes measurement - depression (PROMIS-D), Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC), Pain Catastrophizing (PCS), reliance on analgesics and employment status. NRS will be measured on the 4th postoperative day, at 8 weeks, 6 months and 1 year, while all other outcomes will be measured at 8 weeks, 6 months and 1 year.