The Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program: Cover.
The Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program: Cover.
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背痛联盟 (BACPAC) 研究计划:封面。
DOI:
10.1093/pm/pnac199
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发表时间:
2023
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通讯作者:
Criswell,LindseyA
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作者:
Carter,RobertH;Criswell,LindseyA
Back pain is common, debilitating, and frequently cited as a contributing factor by those with opioid use disorder. Research to improve outcomes for those with chronic back pain is an important need, both in itself and as part of our efforts to combat the current national crisis in deaths from opioid overdose. For these reasons, the Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program was launched as part of the NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-TermSM Initiative, or NIH HEAL InitiativeSM.BACPAC is designed to take a comprehensive approach to understanding and treating back pain. This includes studies at a discovery level that will improve our understanding of mechanisms of back pain, with the goal of developing a theoretical model that incorporates all the key contributors. At the translational level, BACPAC is supporting development of new technologies that can be used to understand or treat back pain, such as sensors or virtual reality headsets, which are now moving into clinical testing. Finally, the consortium-wide clinical study, the Biomarkers for Evaluating Spine Treatments Trial (BEST), is designed not only to determine whether one or another intervention is better overall, but to match patients, on the basis of their phenotypes and psychosocial contexts, to the best treatment for them, including sequential or additive interventions. This issue of Pain Medicine contains important information on all these efforts. We, as representatives of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the lead institute for BACPAC, thank the staff from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the other institutes, centers, and offices (National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Disparities, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, and Office of Research on Women’s Health) that have joined in this effort. We especially salute all the investigators who have worked diligently and cooperatively to move research in back pain forward. The project held together despite the COVID-19 pandemic, largely through the efforts of the investigators to maintain lines of communication. The landscape has also shifted, with a new