Background Low back pain (LBP) is a common cause of disability and is ranked as the most
burdensome health condition globally. Self-management, including components on …

Generic self‐management programs aim to facilitate behavioural adjustment and therefore
have considerable potential for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Our main …

Importance Opioid use for chronic nonmalignant pain can be harmful. Objective To test
whether a multicomponent, group-based, self-management intervention reduced opioid use …

Objective To establish the level of opioid prescribing for patients with chronic
musculoskeletal pain in a sample of patients from primary care and to estimate prescription …

Background Reassuring patient education and exercise therapy are widely recommended
interventions for back pain in clinical guidelines. However, many patients are offered non …

Supporting patients in forming partnerships with health professionals is the key of effective
self-management. This study aimed to explore the nature of patient–professional …

Abstract The Academy of Orthopedic Physical Therapy Pain Education Manual supports the
advancement of modern pain content, and the National Institutes of Health Federal Pain …

(1) Background: Adherence to and the maintenance of treatment regimens are fundamental
for pain self-management and sustainable behavioural changes. The first aim was to study …

Objectives To compare treated to self-reported prevalence of chronic pain (CP) and to
estimate health services utilization (HSU) costs of patients treated for CP in Alberta, Canada …

Background: Musculoskeletal pain and chronic conditions are associated with deteriorating
pain, stress, anxiety, and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL). There is emerging evidence …