Analgesic Medication Use During Exercise-Based Rehabilitation in Individuals With Low Back Pain: A Call to Action.
Analgesic Medication Use During Exercise-Based Rehabilitation in Individuals With Low Back Pain: A Call to Action.
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腰痛患者运动康复期间镇痛药物的使用:行动呼吁。
DOI:
10.1093/ptj/pzab011
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Raiszadeh,Kamshad
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作者:
Shahidi,Bahar;Schenk,Simon;Raiszadeh,Kamshad
Chronic low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common, and sometimes most challenging, conditions to treat in an orthopedic setting. Though exercise-based rehabilitation is the standard of care for this patient population, only 20% of patients currently participate in this type of physical therapy in isolation. 1 Furthermore, in most cases, LBP management includes pharmacologically based pain management in the form of analgesic medications. This use of analgesics is potentially challenging, because physical therapists are faced with the paradox that, although exercise under the influence of analgesic medications can impair muscle adaptation in healthy individuals, 2, 3 in individuals with pain, analgesics are often used to circumvent symptoms that limit exercise tolerance (Figure). A representative example of this impaired adaptation is that in individuals with LBP the stabilizing muscles of the trunk do not consistently hypertrophy in response to exercise, despite short-term improvements in strength. 4 Indeed, the lack of paraspinal muscle hypertrophy is thought to contribute to the high rates of recurrence in this population. 4, 5 Given the high proportion of patients with LBP who use analgesics with therapeutic exercise, and the opposing effects of their use on muscle adaptation, motor drive, and exercise tolerance, it is possible, and perhaps likely, that analgesic use is a fundamental detractor to the outcome of exercise-based rehabilitation. Remarkably, however, there are essentially no objective data in the field on how patients with LBP use analgesic medications relative to exercise-based rehabilitation. As such, the field is currently in a situation where a lack of definitive data could be impeding optimal rehabilitative exercise, treatment, and functional adaptation.Clinical practices for analgesic management of individuals with LBP vary widely based on geography, diagnostic testing, and patient presentation. Even as practitioners continue with an ongoing battle to reduce an opioid use rate of more than 75% in patients with long-term (> 2 year pain duration) LBP, opioids remain the most frequently prescribed analgesic medication in this population. 6, 7 Opioids, along with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), account for over 50% of analgesic drug use in this population. This is significant,