Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and chronic low back pain (LBP) receive front-line interventions for pain that put them at risk for relapse, according to recent data.
“Despite practice guidelines that recommend nonpharmacologic therapies as first-line [treatment] for pain management, we found that only a minority of Medicare beneficiaries with a new episode of chronic LBP receive any physical therapy [PT] or chiropractic care, and even fewer persist with these services,”