When you’re treating patients that feel like their scapulae are asymmetrical, a rib is “out of place”, or they feel neck or thoracic stiffness without any restriction in movement, they may expect you to perform treatment that is unlikely to help, like joint mobilisation, manipulation or massage.

How can you use the latest pain science in your treatment to help patients overcome the experience of asymmetry, stiffness or something being out of place?

Find out in this podcast with Jo Gibson (Upper Limb Rehabilitation Specialist Physio).

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• Tabor A, Keogh E, Eccleston C. Embodied pain—negotiating the boundaries of possible action. Pain. 2017 Jun 1;158(6):1007-11.

• Tabor A, Vollaard N, Keogh E, Eccleston C. Predicting the consequences of physical activity: An investigation into the relationship between anxiety sensitivity, interoceptive accuracy and action. Plos one. 2019 Mar 28;14(3):e0210853.

• Tabor A, Van Ryckeghem DM, Hasenbring MI. Pain unstuck: the role of action and motivation. The Clinical Journal of Pain. 2020 Mar 10;36(3):143-9.

• Venter E. Toward an embodied, embedded predictive processing account. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021:137.