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Treatment for adolescent nonspecific persistent back pain: A multi-method, multi-source study to elucidate gaps and trends in knowledge, research, and clinical practice
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2025-10
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Back pain is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, affecting all age groups. The lifetime prevalence of an episode of back pain in the adolescent population is 40% to 55%, with approximately 35% transitioning to having a chronic case in which the pain persists beyond 90 days. Adolescents with chronic pain conditions, including chronic back pain, are more likely than their peers without chronic pain to experience negative impacts on their education and employment in young adulthood. In 2022, the first clinical practice guideline for treating adolescent nonspecific persistent back pain was published. Those new guidelines emphasise multidisciplinary care for youth who experience a chronic or recurrent case of nonspecific back pain. The biopsychosocial model, which posits that physical symptoms can be impacted by a person’s beliefs, emotions, lifestyle, and social relationships, is the current model recommended for assessing and treating nonspecific persistent back pain in all age groups. It is not known how the treatments tested in clinical trials, recommended online or used in clinical practice for adolescents with this condition align with the biopsychosocial model and current clinical guidelines.
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University of Limerick
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