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Cervical and Scapula Muscle Dysfunction in Neck Pain – Research Evidence

Following on from the last post where I reviewed some of the literature on Brain Changes in the pain state, I thought it worthwhile to summarise what we know about cervical and scapula muscle...

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Physiotherapy Management of Cervical Pain – Research Evidence

In a follow-up to the last post I thought it might be useful to provide some up to date research evidence in relation to Physiotherapy management of Cervical Pain. Obviously there are numerous research...

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Non-Specific Low Back Pain

I thought that this Review article, by Balague et al (2012), was a wonderful outline of where we are at with regards to Non-Specific Low Back Pain. I would recommend those interested read the article...

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Physiotherapy Treatment of Lower Back Pain – Research Evidence

Another Research Evidence post. This time in regards to Physiotherapy Treatment of Lower Back Pain. Once again I have tried to compile some of the most recent systematic reviews in regards to this...

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Classification of Back and Neck Pain – Research Evidence

There appears to be numerous methods in the attempt at Classification of Back and Neck Pain. The purpose of this post is to summarise some of the more common classification systems. In addition to this...

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Diagnosis of Spinal Pain – Research Evidence

For this post I wanted to continue the trend of posts regarding the usefulness of clinical tests to diagnose specific “structural” dysfunctions. The previous post being about the hip, this post being...

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MRI Findings in Low Back Pain

Hopefully we are all familiar with the current view that most lower back pain is “non-specific” in nature. What this means is that there is no obvious finding on imaging (MRI etc) that can explain a...

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Treatment of Chronic Pain?

Hopefully anyone seeing the title of this post will not be clicking on it thinking that I have the answers to chronic pain……please note the maze in the cover image and the question mark at the end of...

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Neurological Examination for Radiculopathy

I found this recent article regarding neurological examination for radiculopathy interesting. Al Nezari et al (2013) conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature investigating the...

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Red Flags for Low Back Pain- Research Update – July 2014

Sorry for the delay in posts. I was pleased to recently be asked by the Western Australian branch of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA) to present a day of lecturing on their annual “Spinal...

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The Core Stability Problem

When I refer to “Core Stability” I mean teaching patients isolated contractions of transverses abdominus and multifidus. This is then usually progressed (depending on the practitioner) to having the...

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Is Lifting Technique Important?

A common theme I continue to encounter in clinical practice is the belief from patients, and health care providers, that correct lifting technique i.e. maintaining a lumbar lordosis, is critical in the...

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Imaging Findings In Asymptomatic Lumbar Spines – Research Update – January 2015

The plan this year is to shorten my posts, and post more regularly. Here we go……wish me luck! Imaging findings in asymptomatic lumbar spines and other areas of the body, are recurring theme on this...

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“Over-Imaging” the Lower Back

Not a very imaginative title I know! But hopefully my final post on Imaging for a little while. Apologies if it has become a of focus on this blog recently, but I think it is a critical issue in...

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Move on please….it is nearly 2017!

Last post for the year. My apologies for the low number of posts this year. 2016 has been a busy year for a number of reasons, most of them positive! To finish off I am going to deal with my...

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