Lead Sponsor

Wayne State University

Collaborators

Age

18 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•English-speaking adults ages 18 years or older with internet access who are referred to the University of Michigan Health Service Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Spine Program identified the physician with chronic nonspecific back pain (longer than 3 months) or fibromyalgia. Degenerative changes seen on imaging are considered nonspecific. Alternatively, enrolled in the University of Michigan Health Research Volunteer Pool with a profile that includes chronic low back pain or fibromyalgia.

•Any signs of a serious underlying condition (cancer, infection, cauda equine), spinal stenosis or radiculopathy, or other specific spinal cause (vertebral compression fracture or ankylosing spondylitis). Those patients who are being considered for an interventional spine procedures or surgical consults would not be included in this study.
•Individuals receiving or applying for compensation or disability, the inability to provide written informed consent, severe physical impairment (e.g. blindness, deafness), co-morbid medical condition limiting function (e.g. malignant cancer), the use of illicit drug use, or a psychiatric condition that would limit judgment.