Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia succeeded in improving sleep in patients with nonspecific chronic spinal pain receiving best evidence pain management (BEPM), but without significantly more pain reduction, in what investigators characterize as the first fully powered randomized clinical trial to evaluate the combined interventions (JAMA Netw Open 2024;7[8]:e2425856).
“Given the separate positive results of CBT insomnia for sleep and of pain-focused BEPM therapy for pain,