Recommended approaches to assessing and managing physiotherapy clients experiencing psychological distress: a systematic mapping review

RL McGrath, S Shephard, T Parnell… - … Theory and Practice, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Some physiotherapists find assessing and managing clients experiencing
psychological distress challenging and are uncertain regarding the boundaries of the …

[HTML][HTML] The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care

N Costa, K Mescouto, M Dillon, R Olson, P Butler… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite clinicians being important actors in the context of uncertainty, their experiences
navigating uncertainty remain largely unexplored. Drawing on a theory-driven post …

Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain: insights from an ethnographic study

M Dillon, RE Olson, S Plage, M Miciak… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Distress is part of the experiences and care for people with chronic low back
pain. However, distress is often pathologised and individualised; it is seen as a problem …

Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: Practising beyond the biopsychosocial model

K Mescouto, RE Olson, J Setchell - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The biopsychosocial model is currently considered by most researchers and clinicians to be
the best approach to low back pain (LBP) care. The model was popularised in LBP care in …

Trauma-informed physiotherapy and the principles of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment: a qualitative study

S Heywood, S Bunzli, M Dillon, N Bicchi… - … Theory and Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Trauma is common and may lead to lasting adverse effects on health. Trauma-
informed practice does not treat trauma but uses a strengths-based approach to encourage …

The good pain patient: a critical evaluation of patients' self-presentations in specialist pain clinics

M Dudley, RE Olson, K Mescouto… - Health Sociology …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Established research supports collaborative patient-clinician communication as a means of
improving pain management and decreasing opioid use by patients with chronic pain …

“Every patient teaches you something new”: experiences of physiotherapists delivering cognitive functional therapy for chronic, disabling low back pain in a …

P Simpson, R Holopainen, R Schutze… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Cognitive functional therapy (CFT) is an individualised person-centred
biopsychosocial intervention that demonstrated large and sustained clinically important …

Australian physiotherapists attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours towards psychosocial screening tools: a qualitative interpretive description study

NR Klem, J Ruscoe, L Ng, A Smith… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Psychosocial factors are a barrier to recovery for people with musculoskeletal pain
and psychosocial screening tools are consistently recommended by best practice guidelines …

“Learning by osmosis”: the transformative social identity journey of physiotherapists developing psychologically-informed practice, a reflexive thematic analysis

C Leteurtre, C Cocking, D Novelli - Physiotherapy Theory and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Despite efforts to support physiotherapists in integrating psychosocial aspects
of care to biological ones, clinical practice remains dominated by biomechanistic priorities …

Physiotherapists often encounter clients disclosing suicidal thoughts and behaviors: a cross-sectional survey of Australian physiotherapists

RL McGrath, T Parnell, S Shephard… - … theory and practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background All health professionals have a role in suicide prevention, although little is
known about physiotherapists' contact with clients experiencing suicidal thoughts and …