Cognitive Functional Therapy

“Cognitive functional therapy was developed as a flexible integrated behavioral approach for individualizing the management of disabling Lower Back Pain. This approach has evolved from an integration of foundational behavioral psychology and neuroscience within physical therapist practice. It is underpinned by a multidimensional clinical reasoning framework in order to identify the modifiable and nonmodifiable factors associated with an individual's disabling LBP."
_{Peter B O’Sullivan, J P Caneiro, Mary O’Keeffe, Anne Smith, Wim Dankaerts, Kjartan Fersum, Kieran O’Sullivan, Cognitive Functional Therapy: An Integrated Behavioral Approach for the Targeted Management of Disabling Low Back Pain, Physical Therapy, Volume 98, Issue 5, May 2018, Pages 408–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzy022}

There is significant research and continuing research to evidence the effectiveness of Cognitive Functional Therapy compared with other forms of physiotherapy, pain management and psychology in helping patients with disabling pain manage their symptoms and improve their life. Our practitioners often successfully use this approach after patients have undergone many failed treatments elsewhere, including surgery and successfully help many people return to a normal life where pain is not preventing them from doing the things they love.