Résumé:
Low back pain is a major and worldwide cause of global disability. It is not
rare that an acute episode of low back pain evolves towards a chronic status without any specific
cause. While many clinicians focus their treatment on low-value -care interventions (e.g., massage
or electrotherapy), best clinical practice guidelines now recommend a mixed approach combining
exercises and education. Furthermore, owing to the potential advantages that confer patient inter-
actions with others (support, motivation, and program compliance), we decided to launch such an
intervention program in a group setting (MyBack program) and aimed to evaluate its effectiveness
through this study. Following this 8-week intervention program, approximately three-quarters of the
patients reported a relevant reduction in pain intensity (78%), catastrophic thinking (78%), functional
disability (74%), and fear of movement and work-related activities (74%). Only a quarter of the
patients (26%) reported a relevant improvement in quality of life, probably because this outcome was
already high before treatment. The MyBack program combining education with multimodal group
exercises led to satisfactory clinical, functional, and psychosocial outcomes.
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