Cognitive functional therapy: A multidimensional, patient-centred intervention for chronic low back pain

The biomedical approaches managing low back pain have led to an exponential increase in health-care costs, with a concurrent increase in disability and chronicity, due to the lack of person-centred management and the failure to adopt a biopsychosocial framework based on contemporary evidence. The need of potential treatments to take the complexity of low back pain into account and encompass a representative range of medical disciplines and disciplines allied to medicine, combined so as to offer maximum benefit to patients has emerged. Cognitive Functional therapy is a multidimensional, patient-centred intervention that directly explores and manages cognitive, psychological and social factors deemed to be barriers to recovery in chronic low back pain. This review presents a new treatment method of chronic low back pain, cognitive functional therapy and describe the principals of this approach. This approach could potentially help physiotherapists who seek to treat chronic low back pain in a more multidisciplinary way.