Nutrition Intervention for Chronic Pain Patients (NutChROPain)
Chronic Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Chronic Pain focused on measuring chronic pain, nutrition education, inflammatory biomarkers
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- signed informed consent
- chronic low back pain with or without radiculopathy patients; non-cancer pain
- BMI within the range >18 and <35 kg/m2
- Croatian-speaking
- referred to a multidisciplinary pain management center
- able to report on their health and pain status (neurologically stable)
- pain intensity on 0-10 visual analog scale ≥ 5 prior to treatment
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lumbar spine and electromyography (EMNG) studies completed confirming clinical symptoms of low back pain with or without radiculopathy
Exclusion Criteria:
- younger than 18 or older than 80
- cancer pain
- pregnancy
- disability (unable to walk)
- inability to fill in questionnaires in Croatian
- cognitive impairment
- significant, symptomatic uncontrolled psychosis
- psychiatric disorder
- pain intensity on 0-10 visual analog scale < 5 prior to treatment
- severe somatic disorder (oncological disease, type 1 diabetes, hepatological or nephrological)
- undergoing current treatment for a major medical illness such as malignancy, autoimmune or immune deficiency disorder
- acute low back pain, or shorter than 6 months
- clotting disorders
- BMI <18 or over 35 kg/m2
- nutritional deficiency (e.g. iron deficiency anaemia, osteoporosis)
- current or history of eating disorder (anorexia, bulimia or EDNOS)
- current use of weight loss interventions (drugs; exercise interventions)
- regular use of supplemental omega-3 fatty acids, gamma-linolenic acid or vitamin D
Sites / Locations
- Department of Food and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Food Technology
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Nutrition Education
Control
Participants suffering from chronic pain enrolled in the 4-week Pain Management Clinic organized at the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care will go through a series of individual and group nutrition educations. Educations are specifically tailored for chronic pain patients, based on our preliminary findings on this group of patients.
Participants suffering from chronic pain enrolled in the 4-week Pain Management Clinic organized at the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care. Patients will receive all treatments (e.g. physical therapy) except the nutrition education.