Fibromyalgia & musculoskeletal pain
Long-term outcomes after a functional restoration program for non-specific chronic low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal study
Authors' conclusion
Patients with NSCLBP had favorable outcomes up to 10 years after functional restoration.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) who underwent functional restoration in a French university hospital between 2009 and 201154.9% women
- Participants
- 51 patients
- Outcome
- Overall improvement in the 10 years following functional restoration
- Follow-up
- Up to 10 years
Methodological detailssingle-centre, 10-year follow-up, generalized estimating equations
- Single-centre
- 10-year follow-up
- Generalized estimating equations
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Overall improvement
- Overall improvement at 10 years
- 76.5%
- Overall improvement at end of program
- 92.0%
- 10 years vs end of program
- P-value < 0.050
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
QBPDS score, mean · inclusion to 10 years
- Mean QBPDS at inclusion
- 43.2
- Mean QBPDS at 10 years
- 32.2
- Change over time
- P < 0.001
Return to work in patients with work disability · 3 months and 10 years
- Return to work at 3 months
- 62.5%
- Return to work at 10 years
- 60.0%
- Stable over time
- P-value not significant
Original publication
Long-term outcomes after a functional restoration program for non-specific chronic low back pain: A 10-year longitudinal study. Joint Bone Spine. Published 27 June 2025. doi:10.
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