A5038231201- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
The University of Sydney
2018-2025
Institute for Musculoskeletal Health
2018-2025
Sydney Local Health District
2018-2025
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
2022-2024
Ingham Institute
2022
Cabrini Hospital
2022
Monash University
2022
UNSW Sydney
2022
Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre
2013-2020
University of Otago
2020
To describe the diagnoses of people who present to emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), proportion a lumbar spine condition arrived by ambulance, received imaging, opioids and were admitted hospital; explore factors associated these four outcomes.In this retrospective study, we analysed electronic medical records for all adults presenting LBP at three Australian EDs from January 2016 June 2018. Outcomes included discharge key aspects care (ambulance transport, provision...
Diagnostic labels may influence treatment intentions. We examined the effect of labelling low back pain (LBP) on beliefs about imaging, surgery, second opinion, seriousness, recovery, work, and physical activities.Six-arm online randomized experiment with blinded participants without LBP. Participants received one six labels: 'disc bulge', 'degeneration', 'arthritis', 'lumbar sprain', 'non-specific LBP', 'episode pain'. The primary outcome was belief need for imaging.A total 1375 (mean [SD]...
Introduction Completeness of Global Burden Disease (GBD) Study data is acknowledged as a limitation. To date, no study has evaluated this issue for low back pain, leading contributor to disease burden globally. Methods We retrieved reports, in any language, based on citation details from the GBD 2017 website. Pairs raters independently extracted following data: number prevalence reports tallied across countries, age groups, gender and years 1987 2017. also considered if studies enrolled...
Most of us have read publications where the introduction includes a statistic from one Global Burden Disease (GBD) studies.1 2 We may be told that musculoskeletal conditions are very common,3 low back pain (LBP) is leading cause disability worldwide,4 neck most prevalent in Scandinavia3 and burden osteoarthritis increasing,5 but you ever stopped to think about data underpinning these claims? In this perspective, we considered three limitations GBD Study need borne mind when considering...
Objective To determine the added benefit of combining dry needling with a guideline-based physical therapy treatment program consisting exercise and manual on pain disability in people chronic neck pain. Design Randomized controlled trial. Methods Participants were randomized to receive either or plus needling. The primary outcomes, measured at 1 month post randomization, average intensity previous 24 hours week, numeric pain-rating scale (0–10), disability, Neck Disability Index (0–100)....
Objective To investigate whether different labels for rotator cuff disease influence people's perceived need surgery. Design Randomized controlled experiment. Methods Participants with and without shoulder pain read a vignette describing patient were randomized to 1 of 6 terms disease: subacromial impingement syndrome, tear, bursitis, cuff–related pain, sprain, episode pain. Perceived surgery was the primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included imaging, an injection, second opinion, see...
People often use infographics (also called visual or graphical abstracts) as a substitute for reading the full text of an article. This is concern because most do not present sufficient information to interpret research appropriately and guide wise health decisions. The Reporting Infographics Visual Abstracts Comparative studies (RIVA-C) checklist aims improve completeness with which findings comparative are communicated avoid being misinterpreted if readers refer text. primary audience...
Objectives To describe the prevalence and patterns of opioid analgesic pain medicine dispenses, impact up-scheduling low-dose (≤15 mg) codeine-containing products to Australians with accepted workers’ compensation time loss claims for musculoskeletal conditions between 2010 2019. Design Interrupted series. Setting Workers’ scheme in Victoria, Australia. Population Main outcome measures Number proportion workers dispensed medicines first year claim monthly number, percentage dispenses mean...
An online randomised experiment found that the labels lumbar sprain, non-specific low back pain (LBP), and episode of reduced perceived need for imaging, surgery second opinions compared to disc bulge, degeneration, arthritis among 1447 participants with without LBP. They also seriousness LBP increased recovery expectations.In this study we report results a content analysis free-text data collected in our experiment. We used two questions: 1. When you hear term [one six labels], what words...