Barriers to Physiotherapists' Use of Professional Development Tools for Chronic Pain: A Knowledge Translation Study.

The Pain Science Division (PSD) is a special interest group of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association that serves physiotherapists who have an interest in better understanding and managing patients' pain. The PSD developed evidence-based resources for its members with the goal of improving patient care by supporting professional development. However, online metrics tracking access to these resources indicated that access was low.

The Prospective Prognostic Value of Biopsychosocial Indices of Sensitivity to Physical Activity Among People With Back Pain.

Objectives: Many people living with musculoskeletal pain conditions experience a range of negative biopsychosocial responses to physical activity, referred to as increased sensitivity to physical activity (SPA), that may undermine successful rehabilitation. This exploratory study aims to provide the first prospective analysis of the potential prognostic value of 3 biopsychosocial indices of SPA in relation to rehabilitation outcomes. This study also aimed to shed light on the cross-sectional interrelationships between these 3 biopsychosocial indices of SPA.

A Cumulative Impact of Psychological and Sensitization Risk Factors on Pain-Related Outcomes.

Objective: Risk constructs based on psychological risk factors (eg, pain catastrophizing, PC) and sensitization risk factors (eg, pressure pain threshold, PPT) are important in research and clinical practice. Most research looks at individual constructs but does not consider how different constructs might interact within the same individual. An evaluation of the cumulative impact of psychological and sensitization risk factors on pain-related outcomes may help guide us in the risk assessment of patients with pain conditions.

Comparing Novel and Existing Measures of Sensitivity to Physical Activity Among People With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: The Importance of Tailoring Activity to Pain.

Objectives: Increasing pain during physical activity is an important, but often poorly assessed, barrier to engaging in activity-based rehabilitation among people with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Preliminary work has addressed this problem by developing new clinical measures of sensitivity to physical activity (SPA). Indices of SPA are generated by evaluating how pain changes in relation to brief physical tasks.

From Paper to Digitalized Body Map: A Reliability Study of the Pain Area.

Background: Computerized methods to analyze pain drawings (PDs) have been developed and may aid to measure the pain area more precisely.

Objective: The aim of this study was to verify whether examiners can reproduce the patient's PDs with acceptable reliability.

Methods: This was an intra-rater and inter-rater reliability study.

Evaluating the novel added value of neurophysiological pain sensitivity within the fear-avoidance model of pain.

Background: The fear-avoidance model (FAM) is a leading theoretical paradigm for explaining persistent pain following musculoskeletal injury. The model suggests that as injuries heal, pain-related outcomes are increasingly determined by psychological, rather than physiological factors. Increasing literature, however, suggests that neurophysiological processes related to pain sensitivity also play an important role in chronicity.

Factors Affecting Length of Stay in Adult Outpatient Physical Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review of the Literature.

Purpose: To identify factors affecting length of stay (LOS) for adults participating in outpatient physical or occupational therapy programmes.

Method: A scoping review of the literature was conducted using the Ovid MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, AMED, and Cochrane Library databases.

Results: A total of 19 articles were retained from the search, and 2 additional articles were retrieved from grey literature (i.

The effect of previous loading cycles on the reliability of a clinical measure of hamstring flexibility.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of successive repetitions of a measure of hamstring flexibility-the passive unilateral straight leg raise (SLR)-on the reliability of this measure.

Method: Ten repetitions of the SLR were performed on nine healthy adults. Measures were quantified using an electromagnetic tracking system and standardized using a handheld dynamometer by stopping the SLR at a set end-point force.