Catastrophizing and Proprioception

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CF 280: Catastrophizing and Proprioception

Today we’re going to talk about catastrophizing and we’ll talk about proprioception in chronic low back pain patients as well.

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On the personal end of things…..

Things seem to be humming along nicely around my clinic, other than still needing a good, solid, driven associate. But, it is what it is and that’s OK. The right on will come along when they’re supposed to come along. And we’ll take good care of them when they do.

In other news, I’m still digging on BlueIQ.

I buy a lot of goofy crap and have bought goofy things and services over the years. Always trying to get that competitive advantage. Some of the more solid investments I’ve made over the years have been ChiroUp, ReviewWave, being in Dr. Kevin Christie’s Mastermind group, and then I think BlueIQ. I think.

I’m still evaluating and using it but I think I really really like it.

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Also big in the clinic now is that we’ve been using a software called SignPresenter. Now think about it; I have an integrated clinic and that means I have a crap ton of services when you combine all providers.

Well, I got to thinking, why the hell don’t I have a TV in our lobby with all of our services being splashed across the screen and across the brains of all of the people that come through our doors?

Why am I being a dummy? So I started a little research and came across SignPresenter and signed up muy pronto. There’s a small learning curve on the thing but I think I bout got it handled. I’ve started making my own graphics, videos, etc, and can now showcase things on it for our lobby-dwelling folks.

Including QR codes for landing pages and more information and things like that. I think it matters. Our front desk pro, Elexis, tells me that people will just stand in front of the TV watching it. Lol. So that’s a good thing. Can’t be bad!! I’ll let you know how that goes but early signs say that it’s a big, big win.

OK, enough of the ramblings, let’s get ot the research.

Item #1

The first one today is called “Widespread Proprioceptive Acuity Impairment in Chronic Back Pain: A Cross-sectional Study” by Matthias Poesl MSc, Gabriela F. Carvalho Ph.D., Waclaw M. Adamczyk Ph.D., Beate Schüßler MSc, Michael Richter Ph.D., Kerstin Luedtke Ph.D., Tibor M. Szikszay Ph.D. and published in Science Direct on 17 March 2023. Dayum. That’s hot.

Why They Did It

To investigate whether proprioceptive accuracy measured with the Joint Position Sense (JPS) in patients with chronic neck and low back pain is impaired exclusively in affected areas or also in distant areas, not affected by pain.

How They Did It

• Patients with chronic neck pain, patients with chronic low back pain, and age- and sex-matched asymptomatic control subjects.
• One hundred and thirty-three patients with chronic neck and back pain were recruited.
• Among them, 33 did not meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria or decided not to participate in the study.
• In total, 30 patients with CLBP, 30 patients with CNP, and 30 pain-free control participants were included.
• No significant differences were found between all 3 groups regarding sociodemographic and between both patient groups regarding disease-related characteristics.

What They Found

• Both patients with chronic neck pain and patients with chronic low back pain differed significantly from asymptomatic controls in the Joint Position Sense of the cervical spine, lumbar spine and ankle joint, regardless of the painful area.
• No difference was shown between patient groups.
• An association of the Joint Position Sense with clinical characteristics, however, could not be shown.

Wrap It Up

These results suggest widespread impairment of proprioceptive accuracy in patients with chronic and low back pain and a role for central sensorimotor processes in musculoskeletal pain conditions.

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Item #2 Our last one this week is called, “Level of pain catastrophizing determines if patients with long-standing subacromial impingement benefit from more resistance exercise: predefined secondary analyses from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (the SExSI Trial)” by Mikkel Bek Clausen, Michael Skovdal, Thomas Graven-Nielsen, Thomas Bandholm, Karl Bang Christensen, Kristian Thorborg and published in British Journal Of Sports Medicine on March 10, 2023. Steamy stack of simmering sausage!

Why They Did It

The primary aim was to investigate the effectiveness of adding more resistance exercise to usual care on pain mechanisms (including temporal summation, conditioned pain modulation and local pain sensitivity) and pain catastrophizing in people with subacromial impingement at 16 weeks follow-up. Second, to investigate the modifying effect of pain mechanisms and pain catastrophizing on the interventions’ effectiveness in improving shoulder strength and disability

How They Did It

• 200 consecutive patients were randomly allocated to usual exercise-based care or the same plus additional elastic band exercise to increase total exercise dose.

• Completed add-on exercise dose was captured using an elastic band sensor. Outcome measures recorded at baseline, 5 weeks, 10 weeks and 16 (primary end point) weeks included temporal summation of pain (TSP) and conditioned pain modulation assessed at the lower leg, pressure pain threshold at the deltoid muscle (PPT-deltoid), pain catastrophizing and the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index.

What They Found

• Additional elastic band exercise was not superior to usual exercise-based care in improving pain mechanisms or pain catastrophizing after 16 weeks.

• Interaction analyses showed that pain catastrophizing (median split) modified the effectiveness of additional exerciseswith superior results in the additional exercise group compared with the usual care group in patients with less pain catastrophizing.

Wrap It Up

Additional resistance exercise added to usual care was not superior to usual care alone in improving pain mechanisms or pain catastrophizing. Additional exercise was, however, superior in improving self-reported disability in patients with lower levels of pain catastrophizing at baseline. Alright, that’s it. Keep on keepin’ on.

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