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'I am absolutely shattered': the impact of chronic low back pain on Australian Aboriginal people.

scientific article published on 6 March 2012

'I call it stinkin' thinkin'': A qualitative analysis of metacognition in people with chronic low back pain and elevated catastrophizing

scientific article published on 03 April 2017

'My hip is damaged': a qualitative investigation of people seeking care for persistent hip pain

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

'You're the best liar in the world': a grounded theory study of rowing athletes' experience of low back pain

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

A comparison of symptomatic and asymptomatic office workers performing monotonous keyboard work--1: neck and shoulder muscle recruitment patterns

scientific article published on 05 July 2005

A comparison of symptomatic and asymptomatic office workers performing monotonous keyboard work--2: neck and shoulder kinematics

scientific article published on 05 July 2005

A cross-sectional study of elite adult Irish dancers: biopsychosocial traits, pain, and injury

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A detailed characterisation of pain, disability, physical and psychological features of a small group of adolescents with non-specific chronic low back pain

scientific article published on 29 January 2010

A low cortisol response to stress is associated with musculoskeletal pain combined with increased pain sensitivity in young adults: a longitudinal cohort study

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Abdominal Bracing Increases Ground Reaction Forces and Reduces Knee and Hip Flexion During Landing

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Abdominal bracing during lifting alters trunk muscle activity and body kinematics

scientific article published on 22 April 2017

Addressing Disparities in Low Back Pain Care by Developing Culturally Appropriate Information for Aboriginal Australians: "My Back on Track, My Future".

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Altered abdominal muscle recruitment in patients with chronic back pain following a specific exercise intervention

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

Altered muscle activation patterns in symptomatic women during pelvic floor muscle contraction and Valsalva manouevre

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Altered patterns of abdominal muscle activation in patients with chronic low back pain

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Altered patterns of superficial trunk muscle activation during sitting in nonspecific chronic low back pain patients: importance of subclassification

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

An examination of the flexion-relaxation phenomenon in the cervical spine in lumbo-pelvic sitting.

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An exploration of familial associations in spinal posture defined using a clinical grouping method

scientific article published on 08 June 2011

An exploration of familial associations of two movement pattern-derived subgroups of chronic disabling low back pain; a cross-sectional cohort study

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

An exploration of the relationship between back muscle endurance and familial, physical, lifestyle, and psychosocial factors in adolescents and young adults

scientific article published on 07 June 2011

An investigation into the use of MR imaging to determine the functional cross sectional area of lumbar paraspinal muscles

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Assessment of pelvic floor movement using transabdominal and transperineal ultrasound

scientific article published on 22 March 2005

Assessment of voluntary pelvic floor muscle contraction in continent and incontinent women using transperineal ultrasound, manual muscle testing and vaginal squeeze pressure measurements

scientific article published on 11 March 2006

Association between the 10 item Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire and physiotherapists' perception of the contribution of biopsychosocial factors in patients with musculoskeletal pain

scientific article published on 26 March 2016

Association of biopsychosocial factors with degree of slump in sitting posture and self-report of back pain in adolescents: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 24 February 2011

Associations Between Musculoskeletal Pain Experience and Pressure and Cold Pain Sensitivity: A Community-based Cross-sectional Study of Young Adults in the Raine Study

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Back pain beliefs are related to the impact of low back pain in 17-year-olds.

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Back pain beliefs are related to the impact of low back pain in baby boomers in the Busselton Healthy Aging Study.

scientific article published on 25 September 2014

Back pain in tennis players: a link with lumbar serve kinematics and range of motion.

scientific article published in February 2014

Back to basics: 10 facts every person should know about back pain

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Beliefs underlying pain-related fear and how they evolve: a qualitative investigation in people with chronic back pain and high pain-related fear

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Better targeting care for individuals with low back pain: opportunities and obstacles

Blood-borne infections in Dublin's opiate users

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Carer experience of back pain is associated with adolescent back pain experience even when controlling for other carer and family factors

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Caution: the use of an electromagnetic device to measure trunk kinematics on rowing ergometers.

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Changes in pelvic floor and diaphragm kinematics and respiratory patterns in subjects with sacroiliac joint pain following a motor learning intervention: a case series.

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

Characteristics of chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents attending a rheumatology outpatients clinic: a cross-sectional study

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Classification of lumbopelvic pain disorders--why is it essential for management?

scientific article published on August 2006

Cognitive functional approach to manage low back pain in male adolescent rowers: a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 24 January 2015

Cognitive functional therapy for the management of low back pain in an adolescent male rower: a case report.

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Common misconceptions about back pain in sport: Tiger Woods' case brings five fundamental questions into sharp focus.

scientific article published on 9 February 2015

Comparative Effectiveness of Conservative Interventions for Nonspecific Chronic Spinal Pain: Physical, Behavioral/Psychologically Informed, or Combined? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on February 2016

Comparison of transperineal and transabdominal ultrasound in the assessment of voluntary pelvic floor muscle contractions and functional manoeuvres in continent and incontinent women

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

Computer use and habitual spinal posture in Australian adolescents

scientific article published in September 2007

Correlations between the active straight leg raise, sleep and somatosensory sensitivity during pregnancy with post-partum lumbopelvic pain: an initial exploration

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Diagnosis and classification of chronic low back pain disorders: maladaptive movement and motor control impairments as underlying mechanism

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Diagnosis and classification of pelvic girdle pain disorders, Part 2: illustration of the utility of a classification system via case studies.

scientific article published on May 2007

Diagnosis and classification of pelvic girdle pain disorders--Part 1: a mechanism based approach within a biopsychosocial framework.

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Differences in muscle activation patterns during pelvic floor muscle contraction and Valsalva maneuver.

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Differences in sitting postures are associated with nonspecific chronic low back pain disorders when patients are subclassified

scientific article published in March 2006

Differences in spinopelvic kinematics in sweep and scull ergometer rowing.

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Differing Psychologically Derived Clusters in People With Chronic Low Back Pain are Associated With Different Multidimensional Profiles

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Disabling chronic low back pain as an iatrogenic disorder: a qualitative study in Aboriginal Australians.

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Discriminating healthy controls and two clinical subgroups of nonspecific chronic low back pain patients using trunk muscle activation and lumbosacral kinematics of postures and movements: a statistical classification model

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Disrupted Self-Perception in People With Chronic Low Back Pain. Further Evaluation of the Fremantle Back Awareness Questionnaire.

scientific article published on 18 June 2016

Disrupted body-image and pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain. A preliminary investigation

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Disturbed body perception, reduced sleep, and kinesiophobia in subjects with pregnancy-related persistent lumbopelvic pain and moderate levels of disability: An exploratory study

scientific article published in May 2015

EMG median frequency changes in the neck-shoulder stabilizers of symptomatic office workers when challenged by different physical stressors

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Efficacy of classification-based cognitive functional therapy in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Epidemiological findings and medical, legal, and public health challenges of an investigation of severe soft tissue infections and deaths among injecting drug users -- Ireland, 2000

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Evaluation of implicit associations between back posture and safety of bending and lifting in people without pain

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Evaluation of specific stabilizing exercise in the treatment of chronic low back pain with radiologic diagnosis of spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Evaluation of the flexion relaxation phenomenon of the trunk muscles in sitting.

scientific article published in August 2006

Evidence-based exercise prescription is facilitated by the Consensus on Exercise Reporting Template (CERT)

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Fitness, motor competence and body composition as correlates of adolescent neck/shoulder pain: an exploratory cross-sectional study

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From "Non-encounters" to autonomic agency. Conceptions of patients with low back pain about their encounters in the health care system

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Gender differences in trunk and pelvic kinematics during prolonged ergometer rowing in adolescents.

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Health literacy and beliefs among a community cohort with and without chronic low back pain

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How Can We Best Reduce Pain Catastrophizing in Adults With Chronic Noncancer Pain? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

How do physiotherapists solicit and explore patients' concerns in back pain consultations: a conversation analytic approach

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Hypermobility and Musculoskeletal Pain in Adolescents

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

I know what the imaging guidelines say, but….

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Imaging for hip-related groin pain: don't be hip-notised by the findings

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Implicit evaluations and physiological threat responses in people with persistent low back pain and fear of bending

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Inability to perform because of pain/injury in elite adult Irish dance: A prospective investigation of contributing factors

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Individualised cognitive functional therapy compared with a combined exercise and pain education class for patients with non-specific chronic low back pain: study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on June 2015

Individuals with chronic low back pain have greater difficulty in engaging in positive lifestyle behaviours than those without back pain: an assessment of health literacy

scientific article published on 15 July 2011

Infographic. Roadmap to managing a person with musculoskeletal pain irrespective of body region

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Infographic: Managing non-traumatic back pain in sport

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Inter-examiner reliability of a classification system for patients with non-specific low back pain.

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Investigating the effect of real-time spinal postural biofeedback on seated discomfort in people with non-specific chronic low back pain

scientific article published on 05 July 2013

Is it time to reframe how we care for people with non-traumatic musculoskeletal pain?

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

It's time for change with the management of non-specific chronic low back pain

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

Levator plate movement during voluntary pelvic floor muscle contraction in subjects with incontinence and prolapse: a cross-sectional study and review

scientific article published on 24 April 2003

Lives on hold: a qualitative synthesis exploring the experience of chronic low-back pain.

scientific article published on October 2013

Low Back Pain With Impact at 17 Years of Age Is Predicted by Early Adolescent Risk Factors From Multiple Domains: Analysis of the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Low back pain and comorbidity clusters at 17 years of age: a cross-sectional examination of health-related quality of life and specific low back pain impacts

scientific article published on 4 February 2012

Low back pain beliefs are associated to age, location of work, education and pain-related disability in Chinese healthcare professionals working in China: a cross sectional survey

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Low back pain characteristics from undergraduate student to working nurse in Australia: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Low back pain in 17 year olds has substantial impact and represents an important public health disorder: a cross-sectional study

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Low back pain in adolescent female rowers: a multi-dimensional intervention study.

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Lumbar Mechanics in Tennis Groundstrokes: Differences in Elite Adolescent Players With and Without Low Back Pain.

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Lumbar loading in the elite adolescent tennis serve: link to low back pain.

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Lumbar spine repositioning sense in adolescents with and without non-specific chronic low back pain--an analysis based on sub-classification and spinal regions

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Lumbar spine side bending is reduced in end range extension compared to neutral and end range flexion postures.

scientific article published on 4 September 2013

Lumbopelvic kinematics and trunk muscle activity during sitting on stable and unstable surfaces.

scientific article published in January 2006

Making Sense of Low Back Pain and Pain-Related Fear

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Mindfulness-Based Functional Therapy: a preliminary open trial of an integrated model of care for people with persistent low back pain ⬇️

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Motor control patterns during an active straight leg raise in chronic pelvic girdle pain subjects

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Multidimensional Prognostic Modelling in People With Chronic Axial Low Back Pain.

scientific article published in October 2017

Multidimensional pain profiles in four cases of chronic non-specific axial low back pain: An examination of the limitations of contemporary classification systems

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Musculoskeletal pain is associated with restless legs syndrome in young adults

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Neck Posture Clusters and Their Association With Biopsychosocial Factors and Neck Pain in Australian Adolescents.

scientific article published on 12 May 2016

Neck-shoulder muscle activity in general and task-specific resting postures of symptomatic computer users with chronic neck pain.

scientific article published on 7 July 2008

Pain and fatigue in sport: are they so different?

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Pain provocation following sagittal plane repeated movements in people with chronic low back pain: Associations with pain sensitivity and psychological profiles

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Patient-centred care: the cornerstone for high-value musculoskeletal pain management

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Perceptions of sitting posture among members of the community, both with and without non-specific chronic low back pain

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Physiotherapists report improved understanding of and attitude toward the cognitive, psychological and social dimensions of chronic low back pain after Cognitive Functional Therapy training: a qualitative study

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Poor overall quality of clinical practice guidelines for musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 25 November 2017

Pregnancy is characterized by widespread deep-tissue hypersensitivity independent of lumbopelvic pain intensity, a facilitated response to manual orthopedic tests, and poorer self-reported health

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Pressure and cold pain threshold reference values in a large, young adult, pain-free population.

scientific article published on 24 August 2016

Process of Change in Pain-Related Fear: Clinical Insights From a Single Case Report of Persistent Back Pain Managed With Cognitive Functional Therapy

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Questionnaires to examine Back Pain Beliefs held by health care professionals: a psychometric evaluation of Simplified Chinese versions.

scientific article published in August 2011

Regional differences in lumbar spinal posture and the influence of low back pain

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Reliability of EMG measurements for trunk muscles during maximal and sub-maximal voluntary isometric contractions in healthy controls and CLBP patients

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Reliability of pressure pain threshold testing in healthy pain free young adults

scientific article published on 01 October 2015

Response to: "Letter to the Editor entitled: Unjustified extrapolation" [by authors: Supp G., Rosedale R., Werneke M.].

scientific article published on 11 May 2017

Rising trends in surgery for rotator cuff disease in Western Australia

scientific article published on 4 August 2016

Rotator cuff disease: opinion regarding surgical criteria and likely outcome

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Self-reported prevalence, pain intensity and risk factors of low back pain in adolescent rowers.

scientific article published on 11 August 2013

Sensory characteristics of chronic non-specific low back pain: a subgroup investigation

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Sitting postures and trunk muscle activity in adolescents with and without nonspecific chronic low back pain: an analysis based on subclassification

scientific article published in June 2010

Spinal Kinematics of Adolescent Male Rowers with Back Pain in Comparison with Matched Controls During Ergometer Rowing.

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Spinal kinematics and trunk muscle activity in cyclists: a comparison between healthy controls and non-specific chronic low back pain subjects-a pilot investigation

scientific article published in November 2004

Spinal pain and nutrition in adolescents--an exploratory cross-sectional study

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Stratified models of care

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

The effect of different standing and sitting postures on trunk muscle activity in a pain-free population.

scientific article published in June 2002

The effect of increased physical load during an active straight leg raise in pain free subjects

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

The effect of resisted inspiration during an active straight leg raise in pain-free subjects

scientific article published on 21 June 2009

The effects of manual pelvic compression on trunk motor control during an active straight leg raise in chronic pelvic girdle pain subjects

scientific article published on 28 November 2009

The future for postgraduate specialty clinical course work masters programs in Australia

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

The influence of changes in trunk and pelvic posture during single leg standing on hip and thigh muscle activation in a pain free population.

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The influence of different sitting postures on head/neck posture and muscle activity

scientific article published on 29 July 2009

The inter-examiner reliability of a classification method for non-specific chronic low back pain patients with motor control impairment.

scientific article published on 3 June 2005

The lumbar paraspinal muscle morphometry of fast bowlers in cricket

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

The predictive ability of the STarT Back Tool was limited in people with chronic low back pain: a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

The relationship between back muscle endurance and physical, lifestyle, and psychological factors in adolescents

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

The relationship beween posture and back muscle endurance in industrial workers with flexion-related low back pain

scientific article published on 13 June 2005

The unmet needs of Aboriginal Australians with musculoskeletal pain: A mixed method systematic review

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

The use of a mechanism-based classification system to evaluate and direct management of a patient with non-specific chronic low back pain and motor control impairment--a case report

scientific article published on 31 July 2006

The validity of O'Sullivan's classification system (CS) for a sub-group of NS-CLBP with motor control impairment (MCI): overview of a series of studies and review of the literature

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There is more to pain than tissue damage: eight principles to guide care of acute non-traumatic pain in sport

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Trajectories of Low Back Pain From Adolescence to Young Adulthood.

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Trajectories of childhood body mass index are associated with adolescent sagittal standing posture

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Understanding Adolescent Low Back Pain From a Multidimensional Perspective: Implications for Management

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Upper and lower lumbar segments move differently during sit-to-stand

scientific article published on 07 March 2013

Using theory to improve low back pain care in Australian Aboriginal primary care: a mixed method single cohort pilot study

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Vertebral bone mineral measures and psychological wellbeing among individuals with modic changes.

scientific article published on 27 March 2012

What Do People Who Score Highly on the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia Really Believe?

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Why are back pain guidelines left on the sidelines? Three myths appear to be guiding management of back pain in sport

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Workplace interventions for increasing standing or walking for decreasing musculoskeletal symptoms in sedentary workers

Workplace interventions for increasing standing or walking for preventing musculoskeletal symptoms in sedentary workers

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