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Sponsor: Kutahya Health Sciences University
Conditions: Chronic Low-back Pain (cLBP)
Interventions: Pain classification method
Countries: Turkey (Türkiye)
This observational cross-sectional study aims to determine pain phenotypes in individuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Participants will be classified according to a mechanism-based clinical pain phenotyping algorithm as having nociceptive, neuropathic, nociplastic, or mixed pain. Clinical history, quantitative sensory assessment, pain characteristics and distribution, central sensitization-related symptoms, disability, health-related quality of life, and pain catastrophizing will be assessed. In addition, the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the pain phenotyping algorithm will be investigated, and the clinical characteristics of different pain phenotypes will be compared.
Sex: ALL
Age: 18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers: No
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Inclusion Criteria: * Low back pain persisting for at least 3 months or present for at least 3 months during the previous 6 months, defined as pain located between the posterior lower costal margins and the inferior gluteal folds * Pain intensity ≥2 on the Numeric Rating Scale * Willingness to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Inability to read and write Turkish * History of lumbar surgery * Presence of a systemic condition affecting sensory function * History of spinal surgery within the previous 6 months or suspected spinal fracture * Inability to complete the study assessments
- Kütahya, Türkiye, Turkey (Türkiye)