Does Mindfulness Improve After Heart Coherence Training in Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain and Healthy Subjects? A Pilot Study.

Background: Mindfulness and heart coherence training (HCT) training are applied increasingly in the treatment of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). Questionnaires have been developed to assess changes in mindfulness but no gold standard is available.

Objective: Explore the relationship between changes in mindfulness scores and changes in heart coherence after 3 sessions of HCT in patients with CMP and in healthy subjects.

Clinicians' and patients' assessment of activity overuse and underuse and its relation to physical capacity.

To explore clinicians' and patients' (self)-assessment of activity overuse and underuse, and its relationship with physical capacity in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). Study design was cross-sectional. Participants included patients with CMP, admitted to a multidisciplinary outpatient pain rehabilitation program.

Differences in the relationship between psychosocial distress and self-reported disability in patients with chronic low back pain in six pain rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands.

Study Design: A cross sectional multicenter study in six outpatient Rehabilitation Centers (RCs) in the Netherlands.

Objective: This study aims to confirm or refute the finding that a strong relationship exists between psychosocial distress and self-reported disability in patients with nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) by analyzing this relationship in patients with CLBP admitted for treatment in six RCs.

Summary Of Background Data: A strong relationship between psychosocial distress and self-reported disability in patients with CLBP is suggested.

Symptom increase following a functional capacity evaluation in patients with chronic low back pain: an explorative study of safety.

Introduction: This study was performed to study intensity and duration of symptom increase following an FCE and to explore safety of an FCE.

Methods: Included were 92 patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), mean age 38.5 years, mean self-reported disability 12.

Work status and chronic low back pain: exploring the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

Purpose: Exploring which variables are related to work status in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), classified according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).

Method: Ninety-two patients with CLBP filled out questionnaires inquiring after health status, impairments in body functions/structures, limitations in activities of daily living (ADL), participation in work, environmental and personal factors. Additionally, patients performed tests to measure physical fitness and performance of work-related activities.