Objective: Spine pain is one of the most common presenting concerns in health care settings. This article reviews clinical strategies for evaluating and managing patients with spine pain.
Latest Developments: Minimally invasive interventional procedures, virtual reality, predictive analytics, neuromodulation, and other evolving technologies are significantly impacting the management of spine pain. Advances in modern pain science have also led to effective skills and treatment strategies, including patient interviews and queries for insight regarding pain, education, and cognitive restructuring, and adjusting the timing of examination (after reeducation) and examination techniques to encourage the experience of movement in the absence of assumed tissue damage. An evolving understanding of the influence of patient-centric thoughts, framing, emotional status, and cognitive restructuring's influence on the brain's response to perceived threat are important aspects of spine pain management.
Essential Points: The correlation of clinical presentations with structural abnormalities is necessary but insufficient to evaluate and manage spine pain. Modern pain science acknowledges pain as a subjective experience but recognizes a critical distinction between tissue damage, nociception, and the experience of pain. What and how we communicate with patients, as well as evolving neuromodulation technologies, augment conventional approaches.
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