Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise for Neck Pain: A Focus Group Study on Adolescents' Views

Abstract

An intervention consisting of pain neuroscience education and exercise administered in the school setting is well accepted and considered relevant and appropriate by adolescents with chronic idiopathic neck pain.

Characterisation and assessment of the most popular mobile apps designed for neck pain self‐management: A systematic search in app stores

“…Regarding the apps‐related interventions, all of the 17 apps analysed included a combination of at least two different types of exercise, in line with recommendations of using mixed exercise interventions for NP (Blanpied et al., 2017). However, only five apps included an educational component in addition to exercise, and of these, only three considered the cognitive and affective component of pain, despite education and the psychosocial dimension of pain being key in the self‐management of NP (Louw et al., 2016; Neto et al., 2018; Watson et al., 2019). Future apps should give more attention to patient education about chronic pain aligned with the biopsychosocial model of pain.…”

Pain Neuroscience Education for Children with Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders: A Randomized Comparative Pilot Study

“…Third, previous studies providing evidence for the effect of PNE in healthy children [ 10 ] and the context of pediatric pain has mainly focused on attitudes and knowledge of pain physiology, instead of pain-related outcomes such as physical functioning, pain intensity and pain-related fear [ 14 , 15 ]. Despite its frequent use in the evaluation of functional disability in the context of functional abdominal pain [ 39 , 40 ], it should be noted that the FDI was initially developed to assess perceived difficulty in a variety of activities that are relevant to children and adolescents, rather than to assess limitations specific to a particular pediatric condition such as FAPDs [ 25 ].…”

“…The limited studies investigating PNE(-based) interventions in the pediatric chronic pain context, only include (healthy) adolescents and their parents [ 10 , 14 , 15 ]. Drawing upon available evidence in adult and adolescent samples, it is expected that PNE provided to children (6–12 years) and their parents will lead to improved pain-related outcomes in both the child and the parents.…”

Sticking to It: A Scoping Review of Adherence to Exercise Therapy Interventions in Children and Adolescents With Musculoskeletal Conditions

“…19,85 For early adolescents (age, 10-14 years), time constraints (especially homework) were frequent barriers, 81,88 and involving family to boost adherence was a common strategy. 61,80 The 6 studies focusing on older adolescents (age, 15-19 years) 24, 50,64,73,76,77 repeatedly highlighted education, 50,73,77 feedback, 73,77 and the use of technology-enabled reminders (short message service messages) as adherence modifiers. 64,73 Alignment Between Barriers/Facilitators and Boosting Strategies…”

“…Regardless, targeting the social environment through group exercise and its impact on exercise adherence is a relatively unexplored area for acute musculoskeletal injuries. 73 • Supervision (lack of) 8 10 (2-5) • Clinician checking in 39,99,103 • Rewards 8,18,85 • Feedback 77,96 • Technology as reminder 64,102 22 (1-5)…”