Pain knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of Australian osteopaths drawn from a nationally representative sample of the profession

Fitzgerald, Kylie; Vaughan, Brett; Fleischmann, Michael; Austin, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.jbmt.2020.06.022

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“…After evaluating all abstracts and assessing them against the inclusion criteria to detect the abstracts for inclusion, eight research articles were eligible to be included [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. All the included studies had a quantitative crosssectional design, where surveys were used to evaluate the knowledge and attitudes towards osteopathy for chronic musculoskeletal pain.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain usually have an impaired quality of life and reduced productivity [16]. There are different methods for chronic pain; an effective approach is the use of osteopathy, particularly for chronic low back pain, though, evidence on its efficacy is still controversial for all patients with chronic pain [17].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interest in understanding the knowledge and attitudes towards osteopathy has dramatically increased in the past five years, as shown in this review. Four studies examined the knowledge and behaviours of osteopaths and physiotherapists during the last year [13][14][15][16]. Also, questionnaires were found the most used method for understanding the knowledge and attitudes about osteopathy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, Fitzgerald et al [16] highlighted that patients need psychological support in addition to the osteopathic strategy, and that demographic variations among patients may affect their attitude and acceptance for osteopathy. Two additions for Fitzgerald et al [16] was that patients with low back pain would need more osteopathy sessions, and that patients with pain control certification were significantly more aware of osteopathy (p-value<0.01).…”

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Treated with Osteopathy

Al-Shareef¹,

Alshareef

Almoftery

2021

JPRI

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Background: Chronic pain is a common clinical feature that accompanies osteopathy. Knowledge and attitudes of both patients and their treating clinicians would influence the patients' outcomes and pain control. Objective: This systematic review will provide an understanding of the knowledge and attitudes of patients and clinicians towards musculoskeletal pain accompanying osteopathy. Methods: Different keywords were used to search the medical literature, including: “knowledge” OR “Attitude” AND “Osteopathy” AND “Pain” AND “patient” OR “clinician." The search databases included Medline, Embase PubMed, and SCOPUS. The following step was reviewing the appearing results to ensure that they were original research articles that examined the knowledge and attitudes about chronic musculoskeletal pain with osteopathy. All the eligible studies should mention the type of participants examined (either patients or clinicians). Results: A total of 89 studies were obtained. After removing review articles and choosing original research studies solely, 11 studies appeared from the filtration process. Eight research articles were eligible. All the included studies had a quantitative cross-sectional design. Only health care professionals were asked about osteopathy, where all the studies included osteopaths from different countries, except one study that included physiotherapists. Osteopaths knew about the benefits of osteopathy, particularly for lower back pain; however, their knowledge about biopsychosocial factors requires improvement. Conclusion: Knowledge about osteopathy benefits for controlling chronic musculoskeletal pain should be improved even among osteopaths. Awareness campaigns are also needed for patients in orthopedic and physiotherapy clinics about osteopathy.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Treated with Osteopathy

Al-Shareef¹,

Alshareef

Almoftery

2021

JPRI

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“…This viewpoint is endorsed by patients’ perception ( Lam et al, 2019 ) but may still not sufficiently differentiate osteopathy from other health care professions ( Thomson et al, 2013 ). Furthermore, it is currently unclear how the nature and principles of osteopathy inform patient management strategies commonly used in clinical practice; in particular, patient/pain education and psychological support ( Fitzgerald et al, 2020 ), lifestyle advice emphasizing diet, nutrition, physical activity, and exercise ( Fleischmann et al, 2020 ), and self-management solutions ( Vaughan et al, 2020 ). In summary, osteopathy arguably combines hands-on manual approaches (using touch and manipulation) informed by osteopathic models of care with hands-off patient management approaches (using patient education, psychological support, lifestyle advice, and self-management solutions) informed by osteopathic principles, both utilizing top-down and bottom-up dynamics between peripheral tissues and the brain.…”

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Osteopathy and Mental Health: An Embodied, Predictive, and Interoceptive Framework

Bohlen¹,

Shaw

Cerritelli

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Globally, mental and musculoskeletal disorders present with high prevalence, disease burden, and comorbidity. In order to improve the quality of care for patients with persistent physical and comorbid mental health conditions, person-centered care approaches addressing psychosocial factors are currently advocated. Central to successful person-centered care is a multidisciplinary collaboration between mental health and musculoskeletal specialists underpinned by a robust therapeutic alliance. Such a collaborative approach might be found in osteopathy, which is typically utilized to treat patients with musculoskeletal disorders but may arguably also benefit mental health outcomes. However, research and practice exploring the reputed effect of osteopathy on patients with mental health problems lack a robust framework. In this hypothesis and theory article, we build upon research from embodied cognition, predictive coding, interoception, and osteopathy to propose an embodied, predictive and interoceptive framework that underpins osteopathic person-centered care for individuals with persistent physical and comorbid mental health problems. Based on the premise that, for example, chronic pain and comorbid depression are underlined by overly precise predictions or imprecise sensory information, we hypothesize that osteopathic treatment may generate strong interoceptive prediction errors that update the generative model underpinning the experience of pain and depression. Thus, physical and mental symptoms may be reduced through active and perceptual inference. We discuss how these theoretical perspectives can inform future research into osteopathy and mental health to reduce the burden of comorbid psychological factors in patients with persistent physical symptoms and support person-centered multidisciplinary care in mental health.

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What do people believe to be the cause of low back pain? A scoping review

Grøn,

Bülow,

Jonsson

et al. 2023

Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy

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Pain knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of Australian osteopaths drawn from a nationally representative sample of the profession

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Knowledge and Attitude towards Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Treated with Osteopathy

Knowledge and Attitude towards Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Treated with Osteopathy

Osteopathy and Mental Health: An Embodied, Predictive, and Interoceptive Framework

What do people believe to be the cause of low back pain? A scoping review

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