Chronic nonmalignant pain makes individuals prone to stigmatizing reactions of others.
Stigmatizing responses are devaluing and discrediting responses of observers toward …

A substantial evidence–practice gap exists between healthcare professionals learning about
the biopsychosocial model of pain and adopting this model in clinical practice. This review …

Objective Overuse of diagnostic imaging for patients with low back pain remains common.
The underlying beliefs about diagnostic imaging that could drive overuse remain unclear …

Background Health policies internationally advocate 'support for self‐management', but it is
not clear how the promise of the concept can be fulfilled. Objective To synthesize research …

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is associated with a number of costly disability-related
outcomes. It has received increasing attention from qualitative researchers studying its …

This study examined the impact of evidence concerning the presence of 1) a biomedical
basis for pain and 2) psychosocial influences on practitioner appraisals of patient pain …

Objectives We aimed to explore healthcare professionals' experience of treating chronic non-
malignant pain by conducting a qualitative evidence synthesis. Understanding this …

Objectives The provision of musculoskeletal assessment and pathway management by
physiotherapists in primary care is an expanding innovation within the UK National Health …

The present studies investigated the impact of medical and psychosocial information on the
observer's estimations of pain, emotional responses, and behavioral tendencies toward …

Introduction Employing allied health professionals in extended scope roles has developed
relatively recently in health-care. Within physiotherapy, the extended role has provided …