From GRIP to multimodal pain therapy. A concept asserts itself

Abstract

Low back pain is still a big medical and social problem. During the last few decades a change of paradigm in treating non-specific low back pain has happened: physical activity and exercise therapy are now recommended as the first-line treatment in all relevant national and international guidelines. In chronic cases only biopsychosocial treatment concepts are successful, which have been introduced in Germany in 1990 in the form of the GRIP (Gottingen intensive low back program) for the first time. Meanwhile, this treatment has now been recommended by all evidence-based guidelines but we are still in the beginning of a full coverage care in Germany.