Clinical articles and resources for healthcare professionals.
In rehabilitation, implementing smart practices is essential for achieving ideal outcomes. Evidence-based rehabilitation programs incorporate the best available research, expert skills, and patient pr...
Read more →There is considerable evidence to support the importance of cervical afferent dysfunction in the development of dizziness, unsteadiness, visual disturbances, altered balance, and altered eye and head ...
Read more →A new questionnaire is available with your Erepsonline subscription. The Generalised Anxiety Disorder Assessment (GAD-7) is a brief measure of general anxiety symptoms, and is commonly used in a wide ...
Read more →Self-reported outcome instruments or patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are gaining popularity.(1) Recently, there has been interest in using PROMs to aid management of individual patients - th...
Read more →Central Sensitization (CS) has been proposed as a common neurophysiological phenomenon to explain related syndromes for which no specific organic cause can be found.(1) The term Central Sensitivity Sy...
Read more →Evidence suggests that clinicians are limited in their ability to identify psychosocial factors in patients presenting with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain.(1,2) As such, it is important to use screening t...
Read more →Adherence has been defined as: "the extent to which a person's behaviour... corresponds with agreed recommendations from a healthcare provider" (1) Adherence with treatment is an important factor whic...
Read more →The Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire (FABQ) was developed by Waddell to investigate the fear-avoidance beliefs of patients with chronic low back pain.(1) The Rehabilitation Measures Database states...
Read more →In 2014, Mark Zimmerman, MD posted in the Psychiatric Times: "Imagine going to your primary care physician with a fever and symptoms of an upper respiratory tract infection. The doctor puts his or her...
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