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Chronic Lower Back Pain
Researchers: All are Undergraduate Students & Researchers at Oxford Brookes University.
Clare Mayall, Jill Green, Eva Winter, Sharon McInerney
Their work is supervised by Jorge Esteves,
Senior Lecturer in Osteopathy.
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Oxford Brookes University
The study seeks to identify whether people
with chronic lower back pain (CLBP) process their
emotions in a
significantly different way when compared with pain free individuals.
Seventy percent of adults in western cultures incur lower back pain (LBP) at
some point in their lifetime and according to the Health & Safety Executive,
almost 5 million working days are lost annually in the UK through back pain
related sick leave. From an osteopathic perspective, CLBP is one of the most
common presenting complaints in patients. However, it remains a poorly
understood and treated condition. Previous research has sought to prove a
link between CLBP and psychopathologies such as depression, but the evidence
for this is patchy and in some cases, contradictory.
This study therefore aims to achieve a better understanding of the psychological processes that may be underpinning the CLBP experienced by patients presenting at an osteopathic teaching clinic. There will be particular focus on how patients process their emotions and the extent to which people with CLBP are different in this regard.
Dorset RDSU
Cornelia
House Poole Hospital NHS Trust Longfleet Road Poole
Dorset BH15 2JB
Email
dawn.stevens@poole.nhs.uk
