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Professor Peter O'Sullivan and Associate Professor Peter Kent
Peter O’Sullivan, Distinguished Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, and Peter Kent,...
There's a new guide for primary care practitioners who work with people with low back pain.
The new Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to make sure patients with this common...
Telerehabilitation on pain and disability in patients with spine pain achieved more improvement...
Patients are encouraged to ‘self-manage’ their chronic pain conditions. But there are external...
10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.
A ‘recovering interventional spine physiatrist’ makes the case for spine clinicians paying more...
Practical advice for people who experience persistent pain, based on the work of musculoskeletal...
In this webinar, Michael Di Donato reports on his recent research into imaging and opioid use in...
Patient / treater rapport, emotional validation and education backed by experiences that...
Doctors and allied health professionals aiming to avoid over-treatment can actually make things...
Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Professor Peter O'Sullivan from Curtin University,...
Efficient, evidence-based and directed by what matters to patients: what’s not to like about...
By creating a therapeutic "pain story," proponents of cognitive functional therapy claim the...
In part two of our three-part series, Dr Wyatt explains common neck and back problems and gives...
Australians are turning to spinal fusions to control lower back pain despite a lack of evidence....
This case study looks at the additional injuries which can occur as a result of the workplace...
This case study explores the importance of providing options for the injured worker's return to...
Ms P is a 59 year old woman who reported back problems as a result of her long term employment...
Physiotherapy treatment is common for a range of standard conditions, particularly including...
Professor Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
Back pain and neck pain are common. What do we know about their natural history, work...
Employers and supervisors are key components of the return to work process. Without their...
Despite the best efforts of the return to work manager, some cases seem to make little progress....
Listen to musculoskeletal physiotherapist, Dr. Jon Ford, talk about how practitioners can help...
Dr Jos Verbeek and Dr Mary Wyatt
Dr Jos Verbeek talks about a review of research on training employees to lift to prevent back...
Professor Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde outlines key findings based on the study of 40,000 Danes.
Disc bulge, disc degeneration, disc protrusion. Terms that worry patients, most of the time...
The messages of a $6 million public health campaign about back pain are being lost thanks to...
Does Australia have anything to learn from an American expose of the influence drug companies...
A rehab provider who addresses the human impact of injury restarts stalled RTW for a...
When it comes to back pain, we don't have the right vocabulary - and we need it. The right words...
An investigation won't tell us what we usually need to know about back pain - so why do we often...
Our Superhero Superdoc is back on back pain and the importance of not being afraid of it.
Fear and back pain make a destructive combination - our local superhero talks about why.
A worker's confidence and approach to self-management can make the difference between a...
Back pain accounts for a large proportion of injury claims, and a higher proportion of long term...
In a close-knit rural community, one RTWC's resourceful approach transforms a movement-limiting...