Authors: Ben Darlow, Anthony Dowell, G. David Baxter, Fiona Mathieson, Meredith Perry, Sarah Dean AIM This study explored how people with low back pain develop their beliefs about their back, where those beliefs come from, and how they influence subsequent behaviour. The researchers were particularly interested in the relationship between patients’ beliefs and messages received... Continue Reading →
Authors: Tiago S. Jesus, Christina Papadimitriou, Felicity A. Bright, Nicola M. Kayes, Cátia S. Pinho, Cheryl A. Cott AIM Person-centred rehabilitation (PCR) is widely advocated, but the concept can remain difficult to translate into everyday practice. This paper aimed to develop a cross-professional model describing what person-centred rehabilitation means and how it can be enacted... Continue Reading →
Authors: Tiago S. Jesus, Felicity A. Bright, Cátia S. Pinho, Christina Papadimitriou, Nicola M. Kayes & Cheryl A. Cott AIM Person-centred rehabilitation is widely discussed, but the rehabilitation literature addressing it had not previously been systematically mapped. This scoping review aimed to describe how much literature existed, what kinds of questions researchers were studying, which... Continue Reading →
I went to the dentist today, and unexpectedly, it taught me a lot about physiotherapy. Not because anything catastrophic happened, the appointment was clinically probably fine. The dentist seemed competent, polite enough, and technically skilled, but I left the clinic feeling unsettled, tense, and strangely small and as I reflected on that experience afterwards, I... Continue Reading →
