The treatments for the chronic back pain have been limited for a long time, offering only temporary benefits. Australian researchers have found a solution for this type of problem.
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The power of the mind over the body could be the treatment for back pain, it is stated in a study. Australian researchers believe that conversation therapies, also known as psychotherapy or verbal therapy, can help the affected people to lead a more active life. And the benefits can be observed up to three years after treatment, according to the Daily Mail.
And this scientific method could be more effective in the long term than medicines.
Often, psychotherapists use various conversation therapies to help people with mental health problems, such as anxiety or depression, or other emotional problems, from fighting stress to giving up bad habits.
In the study, researchers at Macquarie University in Sydney focused on a type of psychotherapy called cognitive functional therapy (CFT), which focus on understanding how thoughts, emotions and behaviors contribute to pain.
Of the over 1,000 patients recruited with lumbar pain, one third received “ordinary care“Another third has benefited from CFT, and the last third was treated with CFT plus another technique known as” biofeedback “, which is trying to learn a person to control the automatic body functions.
People who have benefited from “ordinary care“They received what the family doctor recommended or what they chose from local services, which may include a combination of pain medicines and self-registered tips. Those who benefited from CFT had seven treatment sessions over 12 weeks, as well as a consolidation session at 26 weeks, which lasted between 30 and 60 minutes.
The researchers found that the other two methods were both more effective than ordinary care in reducing the activity caused by lumbar pain.
There were no significant differences between patients who used and those who did not use biofeedback techniques, which caused researchers to say that this “did not contribute to effectiveness”.
Scientists have qualified this treatment, in Lancet Rheumatology magazine, as “of great value ” and “with low risk“They also stated that”significantly reduces the effect of chronic back pain”.
Back pain is the most common form of pain felt by adults, but usually there is no immediately identifiable cause. In many cases, it is a short -term problem, caused by a tension that affects the muscles, tendons or ligaments.
