Quirk DA, Johnson M, Anderson D, Smuck M, Sun R, Matthew R, Bailey J, Marras W, Bell K, Darwin J, Bowden A; Biomechanical Phenotyping of Chronic Low Back Pain: Protocol for BACPAC; Pain Medicine, vol. 24(1), pp. S48-S60, 2023.

Objective: Biomechanics represents the common final output through which all biopsychosocial constructs of back pain must pass, making it a rich target for phenotyping. To exploit this feature, several sites within the NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) have developed biomechanics measurement and phenotyping tools. The overall aims of this article were to: 1) provide a narrative review of biomechanics as a phenotyping tool; 2) describe the diverse array of tools and outcome measures that exist within BACPAC; and 3) highlight how leveraging these technologies with the other data collected within BACPAC could elucidate the relationship between biomechanics and other metrics used to characterize low back pain (LBP).