Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training (FABT)

At Home for Workers’ Compensation Patients

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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

Program Features

  • Fear Avoidance Beliefs 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

12-week program

Non-pharmacological

Fun and engaging

Providers Track Patient Progress Online

 

  • Remotely monitor patient progress
  • Access pain educational media
  • View key analytics
  • Custom experiences for providers, clinicians, and pain coaches

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Patient Journey

 

KarunaHOME patient experience

Patient engages in Fear Avoidance Belief Training (FABT) at home, while progress data is sent back to their providers.

Getting started
Patient meets with a clinician (either in person or over video chat) to determine a plan of care for Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training (FABT).

The KarunaHOME kit is then sent to the patient’s house.
Training and coaching begin
Patient begins activities and meets with coach once per week to go review goals, progress, and educational materials.

 

Program continues
Patient continues regular training acitivities and meets with coach once per week.
Real world application
Patient applies functional progress to real world.
Finish program
Patient finishes program and returns kit to provider.

Clinical Evidence for Karuna’s Workers’ Compensation Program

480

Journal articles *

93

Randomized

controlled trials *

26

Meta-analyses articles *

Research

Selected Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training (FABT)

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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The Effect of a Fear-Avoidance–Based Physical Therapy Intervention for Patients With Acute Low Back Pain: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial
Randomized Controlled Trial

Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training improves disability and pain intensity in patient’s low back pain

Ten weeks of physical-cognitive-mindfulness training reduces fear-avoidance beliefs about work-related activity: Randomized controlled trial
Randomized Controlled Trial

Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training significantly improved work related fear avoidance beliefs in workers with chronic pain

High Fear-Avoiders of Physical Activity Benefit From an Exercise Program for Patients With Back Pain
Comparative Study

Patients with high fear avoidance benefit from functional rehabilitation programs that include Fear Avoidance Beliefs Training

A randomized controlled trial of exposure in vivo for patients with spinal pain reporting fear of work-related activities
Randomized Controlled Trial

Chronic low back pain patients with reduced function demonstrated superior benefits over treatment as usual on function, fear, and pain

Fear-Avoidance Behavior and Anticipation of Pain in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study
Randomized Controlled Trial

Function in chronic pain patients is significantly reduced in patients with high Fear Avoidance Beliefs

Preventing progression to chronicity in first onset, subacute low back pain: an exploratory study
Exploratory Study

Early Fear Avoidance Training prevents the onset of chronic pain

Fear avoidance beliefs as a predictor for long-term sick leave, disability and pain in patients with chronic low back pain
Randomized Controlled Trial

High fear avoidance beliefs is associated with sustained impairments in returning to work in chronic pain patients

Manual Therapy, Therapeutic Patient Education, and Therapeutic Exercise, an Effective Multimodal Treatment of Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Randomized Controlled Trial

Therapeutic patient education