It is well known that exercise is good for health and wellbeing – but is it OK to exercise if you have painful joints caused by an inflammatory arthritic condition? This is a question that ...
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Upper extremity exercise in people with Rheumatoid Arthritis – does EXTRA help?
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Better than what? Any treatment for back pain can be effective… it might just depend on what you compare it with
Was my treatment helpful, benign or harmful? Consider the common clinical scenario – a patient presents complaining of pain. You decide to administer a particular treatment. Over time the patient’s symptoms improve. Do you then ...
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It’s time for a shake up: Driving system wide change to improve musculoskeletal pain care and outcomes
Shaking it up Most of us working in the pain field know the many challenges well. Challenges are widespread, reaching from the health systems (macro) level, downstream through service delivery level and into the clinical ...
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When can you say you are well again? How do people with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome define recovery?
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is diagnosed according to a clear and distinct description of the signs and symptoms of the condition [1]. Clinician observations and patient reports are used and reaching a threshold “score” ...
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Take a step back to understand muscle behaviour in chronic low back pain
There is a popular belief that chronic non specific low back pain (CNSLBP) patients need to have higher activation of their trunk muscles during simple functional tasks in order to stabilize their spine. Changes in ...