Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) | Cognitive Patient Education and active individual Physiotherapy (COPE-PT) |
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NPMP is specialization at post-graduate master level for physiotherapists | COPE is taught to PTs during a 3 days course |
Key elements in NPMP | The education program has three basic elements |
• Readjust posture | • Reduction of what the patients |
• Harmonize muscle tension | • perceive as threatening inputs to the brain |
• Harmonize breathing | • Targeting the patients’ own understanding of the pain |
• Harmonize movements | • Exposure to the threatening inputs |
• Body awareness | |
• Each treatment session last 45–60 min | • Each education session last 30 min |
• Once a week or every second week | • Education once a week for 4 times |
• For 3–6 months | • Followed by active, individualized physiotherapy according to pain problems once a week or every second week |
• For 3–6 months |