A new study tested a program called Promoting Resilience with Innovative Self-Management, which combines traditional cognitive behavioral therapy skills for pain with additional activities intended to promote resilience and positive emotion.

Main in a white t-shirt holding his lower back in pain

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U-M to launch $16.5M NIH-funded project to advance personalized treatment for chronic lower back pain

The University of Michigan Medical School Department of Anesthesiology has been awarded a $16.5 million grant from the NIH to improve the treatment of chronic low back pain through personalized medicine approaches that match interventions to individual patient characteristics and needs.