Last year the Cochrane Review of behavioural treatments for chronic back pain was updated to include more recent studies. It drew the following conclusions...
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Chronic back pain: Behavioural treatments sent to the naughty step?
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Minding mindfulness – what is going on?
What is the evidence behind mindfulness? Mindfulness is, it seems, in fashion. Every month there seems to be a new TV show or talkback hour on its wondrous curative powers and I am waiting for the mindfulness-branded t-shirts and environmentally friendly canvas shopping bags to emerge. Is it really that good?
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Guidelines for treating fibromyalgia in primary care physical therapy
How do you treat fibromyalgia in primary care physical therapy? Guidelines are so in aren't they? I guess this is what happens when evidenced based medicine begins to take hold. Broadly speaking, I reckon it is a good thing. What about when the evidence comes from a different health care setting to our own.
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Starting conversations – has Jason hit the Silvernail on the head?
Jointheads, Diskheads, Muscleheads and Fasciaheads. Jason Silvernail has taken a 'no holds barred' approach to the vexed issue of chasing the pain in manual therapy.
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Does it hurt when I do this?
Why the painful joint might not be the painful joint