A type of psychotherapy called cognitive functional therapy (CFT) could help give people with chronic low back pain lasting relief for at least three years.

This is the conclusion of a study led by researchers at Curtin University and Macquarie University in Australia, which demonstrated that CFT is the first treatment with good evidence to show that it can effectively reduce patient's pain-induced disability for more than a year.

Around 8.2 percent of American adults have chronic severe back pain and nearly three-quarters of these patients have difficulties with mobility, social participation, self-care or work participation, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

A previous study found that CFT was more effective than usual care—including painki

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