Therapeutic Pain Neuroscience Education (TPNE) is a modality that has been used for the past 2 to 3 decades to assist patients with Chronic Pain (CP) to adjust their misconceptions around what their pain means and in turn reduce their fear and anxiety around their pain. By doing so, TPNE helps to improve pain outcomes and overall quality of life for individuals suffering from CP conditions. A recent meta-analysis explored numerous studies that assessed TPNE, in order to gain further insight into its overall impact on specific pain outcome measures and in addition to understand what potential variables may act as predictors in determining the improvements in pain manifestations following TPNE. Group-based TPNE appeared to display a significant effect on pain kinesiophobia in particular. Further research has proven that group-based pain management programs appear to have a statistically and clinically positive effect on the pain experience in individuals suffering from various CP pathologies.
Marnin Romm