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Table 3 Home training assignments; patients’ adherence and performance

From: Short-term effect on pain and function of neurophysiological education and sensorimotor retraining compared to usual physiotherapy in patients with chronic or recurrent non-specific low back pain, a pilot randomized controlled trial

MMT assignment

MMT performance (patients participating on the complete MMT programme (n = 11))

Neurophysiological education: answering 184 questions in ten home assignments

81% (9/11) answered >80% of the questions correctly

Recognise® Software: determination of perspective of 10 × 60 pictures of the back.

81% (9/11) determined >80% of the pictures correctly

Sensory retraining with 55 sets of stimuli (pressed points, letters and 3-letter-words)

81% (9/11) fulfilled >80%

Motor retraining exercises

81% (9/11) reported performing exercises five times a week

Motor retraining exercise performance per day

 

Frequency/day (mean, SD)

2.44 (0.81)

Minutes/day (mean, SD)

11.68 (3.17)

UPT assignment

Eleven patients participated on the complete UPT programme (n = 11)

Individually assigned exercises, performance reported on the HTI

91% (10/11) reported performance five times a week

  1. MMT multimodal treatment (group); UPT usual physiotherapy treatment (group).