Preoperative pain neuroscience education for lumbar radiculopathy: A multicenter randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up

Spine

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1449-1457

  Louw, Adriaan ^a,b   Diener, Ina ^b   Landers, Merrill R ^c   Puentedura, Emilio J ^a,c  

^a International Spine Pain Institute   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

education; health care costs; lumbar surgery; neuroscience; outcomes; postoperative; preoperative; radiculopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CATASTROPHIZING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; LIKERT SCALE; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROSCIENCE EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; LEG; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSCIENCES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADICULOPATHY;

EID: 84906283141     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000444     Document Type: Article

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