The Integra Blog

A treatment designed to challenge how people with low back pain think about their condition and change their behaviors was shown to have long-term benefits in a newly published study.

The study is among the largest ever to examine Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for chronic back pain, which is among the most common, costly, and difficult-to-treat health problems.

“This wasn’t psychotherapy and we absolutely are not saying that back pain is a psychological problem,” study co-author Zara Hansen tells WebMD. “Back pain is very much a physical problem, but the way a patient thinks about it can affect how it is managed.”