Effect of Pain Education on Quality of Life of Chronic Low Back Pain Patients
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijpot.v16i3.18392Keywords:
Chronic Low Back Pain; Fear avoidance and belief questionnaire; Numerical pain rating scale; Oswestry Disability Index; Pain education.Abstract
Background: Chronic low back pain is a very common symptom in populations everywhere and is responsible
for more years lived with disability world wide than any other condition. It is a main cause of activity limitation
and work absence, moreover, reduced mobility can lead to significant alterations inquality of life in the longterm.
Objective: To find out the effect of pain education on Quality of life of chronic low back pain patients.
Methodology: Forth is study 40 subjects with chroniclow backpain who fulfill these lection criteria were
recruited. Subjects have been divided into 2 groups based on simple random sampling (Lottery Method).
Group A (Experimental Group) received pain education along with conventional exercises. Group B (Control
Group) received only conventional exercises.Both groups received intervention for about 4 weeks with each
session 45 minutes.
Result: Participantsin both groups experienced reduction in pain,fear, disability and improvement in Quality of
life.
Conclusion: The results of this study concluded that there was no significant difference between pain education
group and conventional exercise group.
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