Changing patients’ pain-related beliefs via psychological treatment appeared to offer them durable relief for chronic back pain, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry.“Leading psychological interventions for pain typically present the causes of pain as multifaceted and aim primarily to improve functioning and secondarily to reduce
Participants were randomly assigned to pain reprocessing therapy (PRT), aiming to shift patients' beliefs about the causes and threat value of pain, placebo, or usual care.