Receiving preferred treatments may improve low back pain outcomes: a non-randomized comparative study.

Front Pain Res (Lausanne) · 2026 · PMC12962917 · PMID 41797978

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Our results are consistent with the findings of the Patients' Preferences Collaborative Review Group (2008), which analyzed eight randomized musculoskeletal trials and found that participants receiving their preferred treatment tended to have better outcomes than those who did not, although the pooled difference did not reach statistical significance ( 31 ).

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