An Effective New Treatment for Chronic Back Pain Targets the Nervous System

• Retraining of sensorimotor retrains changes how people think about their body pain as well as process sensory information.
• Very few low back pain treatments show long-term benefits.
• This challenges traditional treatments for chronic back pain like drugs.
• It aims to align patient understanding with a scientific understanding of chronic back pain causes and the normalisation of the communication between the brain and back.

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