Ep06: Cognitive Functional Therapy for Low Back Pain with Dr. Mark Hancock

Mark is a professor of physiotherapy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has over 20 years of clinical experience as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist working in a primary care setting. Mark now works primarily as a researcher, focusing on the diagnosis and management of back pain. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and his work has been accompanied by editorials and received wide media attention. He is a part of the RESTORE trial, which is the largest clinical trial on Cognitive Functional Therapy (CFT), a biopsychosocial model of care for back pain. In this episode, we talked about what CFT is, discussed various aspects of the recent RESTORE trial, as well as practical questions about implementing CFT. For more about the RESTORE trial, please visit the website https://www.restorebackpain.com/.

Full citation of the RESTORE trial: Kent, P., Haines, T., O'Sullivan, P., Smith, A., Campbell, A., Schutze, R., & Hancock, M. (2023). Cognitive functional therapy with or without movement sensor biofeedback versus usual care for chronic, disabling low back pain (RESTORE): a randomised, controlled, three-arm, parallel-group, phase 3, clinical trial. The Lancet, 401(10391), 1866-1877.

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