Abstract
Physical activity and exercise for chronic pain in adults: an overview of Cochrane Reviews.
Highlights
Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting beyond normal tissue healing time, generally taken to be 12 weeks
To provide an overview of Cochrane Reviews of adults with chronic pain to determine (1) the e ectiveness of di erent physical activity and exercise interventions in reducing pain severity and its impact on function, quality of life, and healthcare use; and (2) the evidence for any adverse e ects or harm associated with physical activity and exercise interventions
The available evidence suggests physical activity and exercise is an intervention with few adverse events that may improve pain severity and physical function, and consequent quality of life
Summary
Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting beyond normal tissue healing time, generally taken to be 12 weeks It contributes to disability, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, poor quality of life, and healthcare costs. Chronic pain has been defined as pain lasting beyond normal tissue healing time, generally taken to be 12 weeks (International Association for the Study of Chronic Pain; Merskey 2011) It contributes to disability, anxiety and depression, sleep disturbances, poor quality of life, and healthcare costs (Leadley 2014; Moore 2014a; Park 2012). Chronic pain has a weighted mean prevalence in adults of 20% (Breivik 2006; Moore 2014a), which increases as the population ages (32% of adults aged 25 to 34 years, 62% of adults over 75 years; Abdulla 2013; Elliott 1999). The term 'chronic pain' was only added as a MeSH term in MEDLINE in January 2012 (National Library of Medicine), highlighting the relatively small proportion of specific research dedicated to this population
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