A 2013 study with First Nations people living in rural and remote areas of Western Australia showed that disabling persistent low back pain may be partly iatrogenic — when the diagnosis and treatment cause more harm and lead to disability. In other words, healthcare practitioners’ negative beliefs and misconceptions about back pain — for example, that the cause is biomedical, that pain will be permanent or get worse, that activ...
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