Integrating best evidence on pain management within the entry-level training of healthcare professionals is arguably one of the most comprehensive and effective ways of closing the knowledge-to-practice gap within our field. This, however, is no ...
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A national initiative to advance pain education across Canadian physiotherapy programs
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Balancing confidence and compassion when responding to children’s chronic pain
A diagnosis of chronic pain is not a milestone that parents and young people plan for. Similarly, knowing how to effectively respond to and care for a child who is experiencing pain that sticks around ...
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Are Modic changes associated with low back pain?
About thirty years ago, de Roos et al. [1] found some signal changes in the endplates of the lumbar vertebra on MRI that had not been described in the literature before. Dr. Modic and his ...
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A mechanistic approach to pain management: Applying the biopsychosocial model to physical therapy
“Physicians and patients usually harbor a concept of pain that involves a linkage between body damage and the pain reported by the patient. This is an inadequate concept that leads both physicians and their patients ...
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Biased towards pain: the role of expectancy in impaired selective learning in fibromyalgia patients
Associative learning is the process by which people and animals learn that two events or stimuli occur together. One of the evolutionary advantages of associative learning is to identify predictors of adverse situations or consequences ...