Physiotherapists have been urged to embrace a patient-oriented biopsychosocial (BPS) framework for the management of non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP). However, recent evidence suggests that providing broader BPS interventions demonstrates small differences in pain or disability compared to usual care. Little is known about how to integrate a BPS model into physiotherapy practice and the challenges it presents.
This is a podcast with Peter O Sullivan ( Curtin University) recorded for the MACP by Matthew Lowe and Uzo Ehiogu in March 2015.
Author: PROFESSOR HAKEN
This is an MACP Podcast with Dr Richard Bennett.
Dan Nicholls discusses red flags and metastatic bone disease with Laura Finucane
Agneta Lando past President of IFOMPT and past Chair of MACP talks about the legacy of the MACP and the benefits of attending this years IFOMPT Conference.
The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the scope and nature of dysfunction in the thoracic region in patients with whiplash associated disorder. The authors conclude that considerable evidence supports thoracic pain and dysfunction in patients with WAD, involving primarily nerves and muscles. Notwithstanding the low/very low level of evidence from this review, findings do support a more extensive clinical evaluation of patients presenting with WAD. Additional high quality research is required to further characterise dysfunction across other structures in the thoracic region, including but not limited to the thoracic spine (mobility and posture) and thoracic muscles (stiffness, activation patterns). In turn this may inform the design of clinical trials targeting such dysfunction.