Neuroscience patient education and mindfulness added to multidisciplinary rehabilitation for women with chronic musculoskeletal pain

The effects of mindfulness training on persistent or intermittent sub-acute pain: using the Headspace®application

“…One such psychological intervention is mindfulness and this is increasingly being used in health care to assist patients in managing pain, stress and anxiety and in targeting additional health, wellness and quality of life outcomes [4,5]. Numerous systematic reviews and randomised control trials have highlighted that Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) can attenuate the experience of pain [4,5,6,7,8] Hardison and Roll [4] in their review of the literature on the use of mindfulness in physical rehabilitation concluded that mindfulness interventions are helpful for patients with musculo-skeletal and chronic pain disorders. However they state that mindfulness interventions are generally complex and not fully integrated into standard rehabilitation interventions.…”

“…Furthermore, the Headspace® application has been shown to improve an individual's wellbeing [9]. Björnsdóttir et al [6] addressed the effectiveness in terms of pain intensity and health related quality of life (HRQL) of two interventions, a traditional pain management programme and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. The results indicated that both interventions resulted in significant changes in pain intensity although importantly the mindfulness group reported a significant improvement in their sleep and the resulting benefits of this with regard to pain [10,11].…”