KarunaHOME Fear Avoidance Belief Training (FABT)
At Home for Workers’ Compensation Patients
KarunaHOME Program Benefits
Decrease fear avoidance beliefs, improve function
Decrease medication usage
Decrease medical utilization for high medical utilizers, decreasing open claim time and moving patient to MMI more quickly
KarunaHOME Program Features
Fear Avoidance Belief Training recommended in MTUS Chronic Pain Guidelines
Behavioral health coaches trained in motivational interviewing
Opioid-sparing, evidence-based pain neuroscience education program
Digital health tools to track patient progress
The KarunaHOME Patient Journey
The KarunaHOME Patient Experience
Patients perform KarunaHOME sessions and activities at home, while progress data is sent back to their providers.
Pre-Program: Getting Started
Patient meets with a clinician (either in person or over video chat) to determine a plan of care for Fear Avoidance Belief Training (FABT).
Once authorized, the KarunaHOME Kit, including our proprietary FABT device and an educational workbook, is sent to the patient’s house.
Weeks 1-2: Training and Coaching Begin
Training and coaching begin. The patient meets with his or her coach once per week to set and review goals, complete FABT activities, and review educational materials. All sessions are completed virtually from the comfort of the patient’s home.
Weeks 3-10: Program Continues
Patient continues FABT activities and exercises. Patient meets with their KarunaHOME coach once per week to review progress, refine your goals, and work towards unlearning their chronic pain. Coaches provide support and accountability throughout the program.
Provider is able to track patient progress through a dedicated Provider Portal.
Weeks 11-12: Real World Application
Patient’s pain coach will provide support and actionable steps to help them transition their progress to the real world. Patient continues to perform FABT exercises.
End of Program: Device Return
After completing the 12-week program, patients return the KarunaHOME FABT device to Karuna using a prepaid label (included in program cost).
Coaches continue to check in with their patients regularly after the end of the program to ensure they are making continued progress in regaining function and getting back to work.
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Research
Selected Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training (FABT) Research
Fear Avoidance Beliefs are associated with disability, reduced function, and impairment in chronic pain patients. FABT has demonstrated improvements in disability, function, impairment, and return to work in chronic pain patients
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Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training improves disability and pain intensity in patient’s low back pain
Randomized Controlled Trial
Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training significantly improved work related fear avoidance beliefs in workers with chronic pain
Randomized Controlled Trial
Patients with high fear avoidance benefit from functional rehabilitation programs that include Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training
Comparative Study
Chronic low back pain patients with reduced function demonstrated superior benefits over treatment as usual on function, fear, and pain
Randomized Controlled Trial
Early Fear Avoidance Training prevents the onset of chronic pain
Exploratory Study
Function in chronic pain patients is significantly reduced in patients with high Fear Avoidance Beliefs
Randomized Controlled Trial
High fear avoidance beliefs is associated with sustained impairments in returning to work in chronic pain patients
Randomized Controlled Trial
Therapeutic patient education
Randomized Controlled Trial
“This product stood out from all the other treatments I’ve had…it has improved me the most. Everything else was more of a bandaid.”
Our Evidence-Based Approach
Our integrative program helps people address pain from multiple angles. It is founded on the “biopsychosocial” approach to fear-avoidance beliefs-based pain management, which has been clinically shown to support lasting outcomes.
Our coaching curriculum and proprietary FABT software fuse neuroplastic pain education paired with movement and relaxation exercises designed to mirror the type of activities you engage in on a daily basis in work, at home, and in life. The 12-week multi-disciplinary program is safe, non-invasive, and hyper-personalized.