Research article review of “Staying At Work With Musculoskeletal Pain: What Supporting Resources Do People Need?”
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! This week we will continue with September’s theme of highlighting clinically meaningful research studies with “Staying at work with musculoskeletal pain: what supporting resources do people need?” by Oakman et al.1 Advice to return...
Research Article Review of “Increased Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Back Pain Following Statewide Medicaid Coverage Changes in Oregon”
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last week, looked at how social determinants of health can impact potentially spine care.1 This week, we will explore access to care for underserved populations by discussing the study “Increased use of complementary and...
Research Article Review of “Low Back Pain and the Social Determinants of Health: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis”
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last week, we discussed a thought-provoking research article by Louw et al. “Evaluation is treatment for low back pain.”1 This week, we will continue with our September theme of reviewing research articles that we believe could...
Research Article Review of “Evaluation is Treatment for Low Back Pain”
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last month, we discussed practical tips, barriers, and facilitators for encouraging self-management in the clinic. This month, we are presenting a series of research articles that we think all spine care clinicians should read,...
Barriers and Facilitators to Supporting Patient Self-Management
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last week, we discussed practical tips that clinicians can incorporate into their practice to help encourage self-management. This week we will discuss barriers and facilitators to supporting patient self-management to give our...
Building Successful Self-Management Plans
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last week, we discussed what patients want to know about self-management, including how to establish rapport with patients and provide them with the opportunity to fully engage in their own care. This week, we will discuss...
Self-Management Guidance
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last week, we introduced the topic of the month: self-management. This week we get into some specifics. But first we want to take a moment and explain that self-management concepts from you (their clinician) are not the same as...
Self-Management
Welcome back to SpineIQ’s Back Blog! Last month, we discussed tools and outcome measures that are important to consider implementing in your practice. This month, we will focus on how to help increase patient use of self-management strategies for low back pain. There...
Measuring Pain Intensity
Welcome back to Spine-IQ’s Back Blog! Last week, we discussed “HOW” to incorporate PROMIS Pain Interference scale in your practice. This week, we will focus on a different patient reported outcome measure (PROMs) that can be incorporated in your office to measure pain...
How To Incorporate Patient Reported Outcome Measures Into Your Practice
Welcome back to Spine-IQ’s Back Blog! We know that you are busy, and we also know how critical your time is and that is why we are making these tools available to you. It may seem that there is not enough time to incorporate all our suggestions, but we also know...