Purpose Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Clinical research
advocates using the biopsychosocial model (BPS) to manage LBP, however there is still no …

Introduction There are increasing recommendations to use the biopsychosocial model
(BPSM) as a guide for musculoskeletal research and practice. However, there is a wide …

Embodied approaches to cognition hold that the body is crucial for cognition. Yet despite
many decades of research, 1 what this “embodiment thesis” 2 (Wilson and Foglia, 2011) …

In recent years, the societal and personal impacts of pain, and the fact that we still lack an
effective method of treatment, has motivated researchers from diverse disciplines to try to …

Background Pain experience has a multidimensional nature. Assessment and treatment
recommendations for pain conditions suggest clinicians use biopsychosocial approaches to …

Osteopathy is a person-centred healthcare discipline that emphasizes the body's structure-
function interrelationship—and its self-regulatory mechanisms—to inform a whole-person …

Qualitative research approaches under the umbrella of phenomenology are becoming
overly prescriptive and dogmatic (eg, excessive and unnecessary focus on the epoché and …

Introduction While the placebo effect is increasingly recognised as a contributor to treatment
effects in clinical practice, the nocebo and other undesirable effects are less well explored …

This commentary critically examines the foundational assumptions, practices and claimed
distinctiveness upon which osteopathy was built and continues to be structured. Five areas …

Globally, mental and musculoskeletal disorders present with high prevalence, disease
burden, and comorbidity. In order to improve the quality of care for patients with persistent …