Abstract:Aim
People suffering with chronic pain have a decreased quality of life in both the physical and psychosocial dimensions. Popular treatment methods for a chronic pain patient are opioid prescriptions and surgery, which may not be beneficial to long‐term outcomes in chronic pain patients, and may actually result in reducing a patient's overall health.
Purpose
This review will examine the role of the physical therapist in treating chronic pain patients in regard to the biopsychosocial model. Reviewing chronic pa… Show more
“…Patients seeking for musculoskeletal pain care are common in physiotherapists' clinical practice. Modern pain management should be guided by a biopsychosocial theoretical approach, 14 which is complex. In intervention research on musculoskeletal pain, physiotherapists often study variations of what are called “behavioral and cognitive components,” and positive sustainable evidence of applying these components has greatly increased during the past decade.…”
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The interventions in the scoping review were in agreement with the definition of behavioral medicine in physiotherapy, but reported behavior change techniques were few.
“…Patients seeking for musculoskeletal pain care are common in physiotherapists' clinical practice. Modern pain management should be guided by a biopsychosocial theoretical approach, 14 which is complex. In intervention research on musculoskeletal pain, physiotherapists often study variations of what are called “behavioral and cognitive components,” and positive sustainable evidence of applying these components has greatly increased during the past decade.…”
Supplemental Digital Content is Available in the Text.
The interventions in the scoping review were in agreement with the definition of behavioral medicine in physiotherapy, but reported behavior change techniques were few.
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