EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT FOR BACK PAIN AND SCIATICA

#Repost @wordsmatter_education. ・・・ Squeezing in a London Words Matter with back pain seminar- see link in bio! . Many thanks again to the wonderful @physioedmedical for hosting- so kind! . Space, seats and Swiss balls are limited! . #wordsmatter #backpain #physiotherapy #osteopathy #chiropractor @wordsmatter_education ...

#Repost @wordsmatter_education ・・・ 🎙COMING SOON 🎙 . The Words Matter Podcast! . We’ll be talking to musculoskeletal academics, clinicians & researchers across the globe on all those sticky, swampy and complex areas of clinical interaction and communication. . Some excellent guests already lined up on topics including: . ⚠️ Communicating to patients around back back pain using a BPS framework. . ⚠️Using imaging findings to help inform, frame and shape peoples’ experience of pain. . ⚠️ How to help construct helpful/unhelpful beliefs and behaviours in people with back pain. . ⚠️ Delving in the lived-experiences of people with persistent pain and how language is part of their story (their narrative @kettlebellphysio 😳🔫) . ⚠️ Communication of risks, benefit and informed consent of manual and physical treatments. . ⚠️Using language in different forms of reassurance strategies in people with back pain. . Stay tuned and follow @wordsmatter_education 👀 . #wordsmatter #podcast #biopsychosocial #elearning #osteopath #physiotherapist #chiropractor #communicationskills ...

#Repost @wordsmatter_education. . Part of developing expertise in patient-centred care is to take a critical stance towards practice knowledge and transitions. 🧐 . Such a stance allows clinicians to become aware of hidden assumptions, taken for granted knowledge, bias and blind spots in clinical practice. . Once we’re aware of these, we can begin to learn and address them to enhance our practice and reasoning. . Words Matters will help in this dynamic learning journey, develop clinical expertise in skills that actually matter to patient care: 👇🏻 . ✅ We have resources to encourage critical reflection on current practice, knowledge and traditions. . ✅ Learn skills to help you interpret, communicate and integrate research evidence to help inform your clinical reasoning, decision-making and navigate the complexities of person-centred clinical practice. . ✅ Develop your own individual model of clinical practice which is evidence-informed. . 👀 So stay tuned folks and follow @wordsmatter_education ✊🏻 . #wordsmatter #expertise #physiotherapist #osteopath #chiropractor #podiatrist #elearning #cpd #backpain #ebp #evidencebasedpractice @droliver_t ...

Online resources to help operationalise and embody the biopsychosocial (BPS) framework for the enhanced care of patients with musculoskeletal pain. . Learn how to use the BPS principles to situate, frame and develop your musculoskeletal practice, using evidence to ease uncomfortable tensions, confusion and contradictions with the model and your practice. . FOLLOW 👉🏼 @wordsmatter_education . #biopsychosocial #wordsmatter #newgradphysicaltherapy #osteopathy #evidencebasedpractice #backpain #communicationskills #physiotherapy #chiropractic #personcentred @wordsmatter_education ...

Clinical practice is a personal and socially interactive endeavour. . Technical knowledge and skills are vital for safe and effective care (clinical methods, techniques and biomedical knowledge) 🔨🔧⚒☠️. . However, it’s becoming clear that patients recovery from common musculoskeletal problems is influenced by a complex interaction of biological, social and psychological factors. . It’s these ‘softer’ skills which clinicians can find challenging to implement and develop. . Words frame and communicate our experiences in the internal (our body) and external world (environment). . @wordsmatter_education is my new endeavour to promote and develop clinicians’ skills and knowledge in communication and social interaction for clinical practice. . It’s NOT a: . ❌ Collection of sales techniques or sales pitches. . ❌ Communication ‘tricks’ to increase patient numbers/business. . ❌ Phrases to disempower and increase fear and treatment uptake. . ❌ Marketing techniques for your practice. . What @wordsmatter_education IS: . ✅ Online resources in communication skills to form more therapeutic and productive relationships with patients. . ✅ Evidence based strategies to enhance skills and competence in different areas of clinical communication; from communicating risk, reassurance, explaining/framing back pain. . ✅ A platform to encourage critical reflection on traditional communication approaches with people in pain and distress. . ✅ Ways to listen, understand and influence people in pain. . So stay tuned for online courses, videos, podcasts and webinars and follow @wordsmatter_education to stay in touch. . #wordsmatter #biopsychosocial #clinicalpractice #clinicalreasoning #elearning ...

Leave a comment below (and/or respond in my story) 👇🏻😊 . (Thanks Nils Oudhuis of @trustmephysiotherapist for the inspiration ✊🏻) . #osteopathy #osteopathicmedicine #osteopatiavisceral #osteopatia #osteopathyworks #osteo #osteopata #osteopathie #osteopathic #cranialosteopathy #osteopathicmanipulation #omt #osteopati #osteopat #osteopatía #osteopatiapediatrica #pediatricosteopathy #osteopaths #visceralosteopathy ...

🚨 WARNING, OVERLY LONG POST 🚨 🤷🏽 . Really pleased to have our systematic review protocol published (and soon to be registered in prospero)- it’s great to get this project off the ground. . The systematic review is the first stage of our larger study investigating the ‘biopsychosocialness’ of osteopaths across New Zealand. . The project adopts a mixed-methods approach using quantitative and qualitative data collection methods to address related but slightly different research questions on NZ osteopaths’ practice. . After the SR, we will conduct interviews with osteopaths to explore their experiences, beliefs, perceptions and challenges and orientating their clinical work towards a BPS approach. . Combined with the results from the SR, this qualitative data will help construct a questionnaire to collect data on osteopaths’ perceptions of the BPS model as it applies to their practice. ✊🏻 . Whilst the challenges and enablers of adopting a BPS approach have been identified in other professions (eg physiotherapy), and there’s some small-scale qualitative research- there’s limited research in osteopathy, and virtually none in NZ. 🇳🇿 . Given the traditional beliefs, philosophical/theoretical underpinning of osteopathy, combined with a strong emphasis an manual therapy and anatomical/biomechanical knowledge, and the professions’ societal location (largely in the private health sector), our project may identify specific challenges and enablers local to osteopaths (and more specifically those in NZ). . This knowledge will then allow specific educational/CPD interventions to be developed to meet these challenges. . Once we’ve collected the cross-sectional data, and the tool has been validated with some factor analysis/statistical wizardry 🧙‍♂️ it can be used to collect data on osteopaths’ BPS perceptions worldwide, giving a broad perspective. 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 . I’m delighted to be part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and chuffed to have Ben Darlow involved who is a real leader in the LBP/BPS field. . Stay posted for regular updates on the project. . #osteopathicmedicine #osteopathy #biopsychosocial #biopsychosocialmodel #mixedmethods #physiotherapy #osteopath ...

💥 WORDS MATTER MELBOURNE IS ALMOST HERE 💥 . Can’t wait to team up with my good buddy and mover and shaker (for back pain at least 🕺🏼) Ben McChesney from @balanceosteopathy. . When in pain, our words we use to convey messages, frame people’s pain, experience and disabilities is crucial to aiding their recovery; it was the germ of an idea drove me to develop the Words Matter sessions. . But using movement (whether active exercise or more passive manual therapy) in combination with purposeful language can create even more profound experiences, meaning, emotional & psychological responses in patients with back pain. . Can’t wait for Sunday. Still time to sign up in Eventbrite. Stayed tuned for regular updates during the day 📱 . #wordsmatter #cpd #osteopathy #chiropractic #physiotherapy #physio #physioaustralia #chiroaustralia @osteopathyau #myotherapy ...

Counting down the days until Words Matter hits Melbourne 🇦🇺📅 . Super excited to team up with good buddy and osteo/movement wiz Ben from @balanceosteopathy to incorporate therapeutic movement and exercise into the successful Words Matters sessions at @victoriauniversity. . Together Ben and I will help develop musculoskeletal therapists’ skills and knowledge in language and communication as they relate to all areas of the clinical interaction with people with low back pain. . The full day workshop will help orientate your clinical reasoning frameworks to utilise contemporary biopsychosocial approaches to back pain. . Drawing upon the latest research evidence, we’ll discuss strategies for effective and therapeutic communication with patients experiencing back pain, in conjunction with matched movement and rehabilitation strategies. . For tickets and full details of the program search Eventbrite (Australia). . #osteopathy #physiotherapy #chiropractic #movementismedicine #movementislife #movementtherapy #myotherapy #physiotherapyaustralia #osteopathyaustralia #chiropracticaustralia @osteopathyau @myotherapyassociationau #biopsychosocial #evidencebasedpractice #lowbackpain ...