Exercise combined with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain: One-year follow-up from a randomized controlled trial.
Máire-Bríd CaseyS TakemasaT O'ReillyM LeamyE Mc KearneyM BuckleyK M SmartR SeguradoD LowryD FlanaganH GopalC HeartyC DoodyPublished in: European journal of pain (London, England) (2024)
Few previous randomized controlled trials investigating ACT for chronic pain have included long-term follow-up. This study found that Exercise combined with ACT was not superior to supervised exercise alone for reducing pain interference at 1-year follow-up. Further research is necessary to identify key processes of therapeutic change and to explore how interventions may be modified to enhance clinical outcomes for people with chronic pain.