HELP - A healthy lifestyle intervention for patients with chronic low back pain

而不是接受治疗，以解决慢性腰痛相关的因素，如超重和吸烟，病人被转介到昂贵和无效的治疗，他们等待了很长时间。这会导致腰痛症状的恶化和其他慢性疾病的高风险。我们将进行第一项研究，以评估减肥和戒烟计划是否可以改善等待手术咨询的患者的腰痛。

Instead of receiving care to address factors associated with chronic low back pain, such as being overweight and smoking, patients are referred for expensive and ineffective treatments, for which they wait for extended periods. This leads to worsening of low back pain symptoms and higher risks of other chronic disease. We will conduct the first study to assess if weight loss and smoking cessation programs can improve low back pain in patients waiting for surgery consultation.