A brief intervention utilising visual feedback reduces pain and enhances tactile acuity in CLBP patients

Abstract

These findings imply that very simple feedback interventions without major technical requirements could be a valuable supplement to standard treatment in CLBP.

Embodied pain in fibromyalgia: Disturbed somatorepresentations and increased plasticity of the body schema

“…Indeed, the progression of body image distortions in CRPS patients parallels that of pain [ 83 – 84 ], raising the question of whether the altered somatorepresentations may contribute to generating or maintaining chronic pain. Interestingly, this notion appears to receive support from the observation that therapeutic approaches based on rehabilitation of tactile acuity can reduce pain in patients suffering from CRPS or chronic low back pain [ 85 – 87 ].…”

Disrupted body-image and pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain. A preliminary investigation

“…These data suggest that greater levels of disrupted body-image are associated with greater pain intensity. A number of interventions that potentially target disturbed body-image have been successfully trialled in people with chronic LBP [51][52][53][54][55][56][57], and it might be that similar strategies are worth testing in people with pregnancy-related LPP, particularly those who present with evidence of disrupted body-image. The median value of the FreBAQ reported by the women who were pain free (1) is similar to what we have reported previously in a mixed gender group of healthy controls (0) [41] and a group of women who were pain free post-partum (2) [58].…”

“…Furthermore, psychophysical findings consistent with disruption of the mechanisms that underpin body-image [43] such as decreased tactile acuity [44], problems localising sensory input [45], greater lumbar repositioning error [46], poor trunk motor imagery performance [47,48] and impaired visual recognition of actions [49,50] also appear to be features of chronic LBP. Moreover, there are some data to indicate that strategies designed to improve body-image might improve clinical status [51][52][53][54][55][56][57]. 6 The changes in body shape and size associated with pregnancy suggest that pregnancy-related LPP might be a problem in which alterations in body-image are particularly relevant.…”

The effect of visual feedback of body parts on pain perception: A systematic review of clinical and experimental studies

“…The other study found that shrinking and/or stretching the painful joint significantly reduced pain compared with shrinking and/or stretching the nonpainful joint (Preston and Newport, ). Four studies investigated the use of real‐time video of the back of patients with chronic back pain (Diers et al., , ; Trapp et al., ) and whiplash‐associated disorders (De Kooning et al., ). Studies indicated that providing normal‐sized VF of the back alleviated pain at rest and during movement, but not when pain was evoked using a pressure algometer (Fig.…”