Whilst low back pain (LBP) is the number one cause of disability worldwide, a small number of patients will suffer associated leg pain, generally due to a herniated intervertebral lumbar disc – commonly known as ...
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Surgical or non-surgical management for sciatica – what you need to know
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#itdoesnthavetohurt: Using social media to get research evidence about children’s pain to parents
All children have pain and parents are generally unaware of how they can help. Despite decades of research aimed at better understanding and improving pain assessment and management in children [i], many children still do ...
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The Pain Illusion
First published in The Enterprise Magazine, UniSA One in five Australian adults suffers from chronic pain. But what exactly is happening in our brain when we experience pain? We talk to UniSA’s Body in Mind ...
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Investigating the path from expectancies to outcome
A considerable number of studies in many areas of medicine have suggested there is a link between patients’ expectancies for recovery and health outcomes[1,5,6]. A patient that expects that the treatment will help them recover, ...
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GP management of back pain – challenges and opportunities
Low back pain is a very common reason to visit the doctor but previous studies have indicated that GP management of back pain is often inconsistent with evidence-based guidelines. We wanted to explore the beliefs ...