Utilisation of outcome measures in the management of non-specific neck pain: A national survey of current physiotherapy practice in the UK.

Background: Routine utilisation of outcome measures (OMs) is an integral part of physiotherapy rehabilitation when managing non-specific neck pain (NSNP). Numerous relevant OMs exist; however, the extent to which OMs are used by physiotherapists in the UK for NSNP is unknown.

Objective: To determine current utilisation patterns of OMs in UK physiotherapy practice when managing NSNP.

What is the optimum rehabilitation for patients who have undergone release procedures for frozen shoulder? A UK survey.

Objective: Despite usually being considered necessary, the rehabilitation regime that optimises outcomes for patients following release procedures for frozen shoulder has not been established and no accepted best practice guidelines currently exist. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into what physiotherapists considered best practice and factors they considered likely to affect patient outcome.

Methods: A cross-sectional, self-administered online questionnaire was developed and distributed to UK based Physiotherapists, undergraduate students and support workers via email, social media and professional networks.

Predictors of the effects of treatment for shoulder pain: protocol of an individual participant data meta-analysis.

Background: Shoulder pain is one of the most common presentations of musculoskeletal pain with a 1-month population prevalence of between 7 and 26%. The overall prognosis of shoulder pain is highly variable with 40% of patients reporting persistent pain 1 year after consulting their primary care clinician. Despite evidence for prognostic value of a range of patient and disease characteristics, it is not clear whether these factors also predict (moderate) the effect of specific treatments (such as corticosteroid injection, exercise, or surgery).

Conservative management following closed reduction of traumatic anterior dislocation of the shoulder.

Background: Acute anterior shoulder dislocation, which is the most common type of dislocation, usually results from an injury. Subsequently, the shoulder is less stable and is more susceptible to re-dislocation or recurrent instability (e.g.

Physiotherapists' use of suprascapular nerve blocks: an online survey.

Background: There is some evidence to support the use of suprascapular nerve blocks (SSNBs) to manage shoulder pain. Although many patients with shoulder pain are referred to physiotherapy, there are no data describing whether physiotherapists currently use SSNBs for these patients.

Objective: To explore if physiotherapists who manage musculoskeletal shoulder pain are using SSNBs and identify, of those who responded to an online questionnaire, how commonplace this practice is in the United Kingdom (UK) DESIGN: An online, cross-sectional, questionnaire survey was developed for physiotherapists involved in the management of patients with shoulder pain.

A multi-modal recruitment strategy using social media and internet-mediated methods to recruit a multidisciplinary, international sample of clinicians to an online research study.

Background: Challenges exist in recruiting an international sample of clinicians and researchers to an online survey. Traditional recruitment methods remain relevant but issues such as narrow geographical reach, high cost and time intensity limit what can be achieved when aiming to recruit an international, multi-disciplinary sample. Internet-mediated and social media approaches to recruitment and engagement offer new, untested ways of capitalizing upon existing professional networks.