{"id":1011,"date":"2025-08-28T06:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/2025\/08\/28\/pedro-top-25-trials-update\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:09:12","slug":"pedro-top-25-trials-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/2025\/08\/28\/pedro-top-25-trials-update\/","title":{"rendered":"PEDro Top 25 Trials Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wprt-container\">\n<p>As part of PEDro\u2019s 25th birthday celebrations in 2024, we added five more trials nominated by PEDro users to PEDro\u2019s Top Trials to form a list of 25 trials. <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/cognitive-functional-therapy-for-chronic-low-back-pain-pedro-top-25-trials-spotlight\/\">One of these trials was the RESTORE trial<\/a>, a randomised controlled trial looking at the effect of cognitive functional therapy (CFT) with or without movement sensor biofeedback compared to usual care for chronic, disabling low back pain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/search.pedro.org.au\/search-results\/record-detail\/73796\">RESTORE trial<\/a> was a multicentre 3-armed randomised controlled phase 3 trial that included 492 adults with low back pain (&gt;3 months duration) presenting to primary care physiotherapy clinics in Australia. Participants were randomised into one of three groups: CFT only, CFT + biofeedback, or usual care (e.g. physiotherapy, massage, chiropractic care, medicines, injections, or surgical interventions). The trial found that CFT only and CFT biofeedback were better than usual care for reducing activity limitation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/pedros-world-wide-journal-club-on-cognitive-functional-therapy-with-or-without-movement-sensor-biofeedback-versus-usual-care-for-chronic-disabling-low-back-pain-restore-is-now-available\">Learn more about the RESTORE trial in our recent PEDro World-Wide Journal club.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous interventions for low back pain have typically produced small and short-term effects. Cognitive functional therapy has shown large effects up to 12 months, but the long-term effects remained unclear.<\/p>\n<p>To assess the long-term effects of the RESTORE trial, participants were invited to participate in a three-year follow-up. 359 (73%) of the 492 participants agreed to participate in the follow-up. 312 (87%) of the 359 participants successfully completed the 3-year follow-up. The results of this follow-up have recently been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanrhe\/article\/PIIS2665-9913(25)00135-3\/abstract\"><em>The Lancet Rheumatology<\/em><\/a>. The follow-up demonstrated that both CFT only and CFT + biofeedback were more effective than usual care in reducing activity limitation and pain intensity at 3 years, showing long-term and sustained effects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanrhe\/article\/PIIS2665-9913(25)00135-3\/abstract\">Read the study in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/english\/pedro-top-25-trials-update\/\">PEDro Top 25 Trials Update<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/pedro.org.au\/\">PEDro<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of PEDro\u2019s 25th birthday celebrations in 2024, we added five more trials nominated by PEDro users to PEDro\u2019s Top Trials to form a list of 25 trials. One of these trials was the RESTORE trial, a randomised controlled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennruscoe.physio\/newswebsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}