Nutrition Care in Patients Living with Chronic Pain

Nutrition care is designed to include nutrition assessment (e.g., malnutrition screening, monitoring weight changes, etc.), optimization of individual dietary patterns, and evaluation. Through the Diet4painrelief platform, a dietician will follow up the progress of each participant in different timepoints and also plan meetings with other professionals in IPRP. A dietitian together with a physician in rehabilitation are responsible for the administration of the procedure.

Dialogue and education consists of patient education, training in wellness and healthy living habits, meetings with families, video feedback, and couples therapy and self-training (e.g., home lessons, activity diary, physical self-training, reflection time, and self-analysis. . In addition, lectures in basic pain science and pain management are offered for both patients as well as for relatives, friends, and colleagues.

Activity training includes graded activity training, and exposure training, which are delivered by an interdisciplinary team (i.e., a physiotherapist, an occupational therapist, and a psychologist).

The meetings consist of conferences with patients, rehabilitation team, vocational guidance, rehabilitation coordinator, goal-setting meetings, and meetings to check goal achievement.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, e.g., goal compass, training in ACT principles, and mindfulness) is mainly delivered by psychologist in a group-treatment (e.g., training in coping strategies). The cognitive behavioral principles are also used in physiotherapy, ergonomics, and education in pain management.

This group-treatment is mainly format by a physiotherapist and psychologist in an interdisciplinary team.

This group-treatment is mainly format by a physiotherapist in an interdisciplinary team.