About The OPTIMUM Clinical Trial

The OPTIMUM Trial hopes to find out if an 8-week group-based pain management program can help patients with chronic low-back pain. The group-based intervention is modeled on the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program which is now recommended for treating chronic low back pain by the American College of Physicians.

The OPTIMUM Research study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine. We are currently recruiting participants at three locations in the U.S: Boston, Pittsburgh, and The Chapel Hill, NC area.