Inside the Science

In S8E3 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Diagnosing painful sacroiliac joints: A validity study of a McKenzie evaluation and sacroiliac provocation tests" with Dr. Mark Laslett. You'll hear him share what was in the literature and why he and his coauthors had the opportunity to conduct this study, specifics on the procedure of clinical examination of the spine and SI joint, the injection process, the results and what they mean from a clinical utility perspective for SI joint provocation tests, the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S8E2 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "The Reliability of Selected Pain Provocation Tests for Sacroiliac Joint Pathology" with Dr. Mark Laslett. You'll hear him share what prompted he and his co-author to conduct and write this paper, what was lacking in precise examination and diagnosis of the sacroiliac joint prior, exactly how this study was conducted and why, what six tests were found to be more reliable and by how much, the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S8E1 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Mastering Prognostic Tools: An Opportunity to Enhance Personalized Care and to Optimize Clinical Outcomes in Physical Therapy" with Dr. Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme. You'll hear him share how making the best decisions for patients includes both diagnostic-related guidance and prognosis-related guidance, various factors which influence prognosis, clinical prediction rules, the clinical implications, and big takeaways.

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In S7E16 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Rehabilitation management of low back pain – it's time to pull it all together!" with Dr. Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme. You'll hear him share 5 domains of pain and disability, how these drivers of pain and disability of nociceptive pain, nervous system dysfunction, comorbidities, cognitive emotional, and contextual drivers appear, and what is useful to identify and with which to intervene needs of both the patients and the clinicians, what's still uncertain due to the limitations of this study, the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S7E15 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Improving consultations for persistent musculoskeletal low back pain in orthopaedic spine settings: an intervention development" with Dr. Kathrin Braeuninger-Weimer. You'll hear her give the backstory on the genesis of this paper, more clarification of this intervention development, some of the more important needs of both the patients and the clinicians, what's still uncertain due to the limitations of this study, the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S7E14 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Reassurance and healthcare seeking in people with persistent musculoskeletal low back pain consulting orthopaedic spine practitioners: A prospective cohort study" with Dr. Kathrin Braeuninger-Weimer. You'll hear her give specifics to the reassurance data collected, the reassurance elements that predicted more subsequent physician consultations later, the clinical implications, and big takeaways.

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In S7E13 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Shoulder pain in primary care: Frozen Shoulder" with Angela Cadogan. You'll hear her share her comments on key features of frozen shoulder diagnosis, the three stages of the condition, the common complaints related to the two categories of pain-dominant versus stiffness-dominant phases, what best care is understood in the two stages appropriate for treatment, its etiology, the clinical implications, and big takeaways.

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In S7E12 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Examination and Imaging Findings for Identifying Subacromial Pain" with Angela Cadogan. You'll hear her share the backstory to why she and her co-authors conducted the study, specifics important to understand regarding the methods, the key findings including what is correlated to a higher likelihood of subacromial impingement, how the loss of motion with particular directions of shoulder motion, how this impacts the popular discussion of whether impingement exists in the first place the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S7E11 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "A call to action: direct access to physical therapy is highly successful in the US military. When will professional bodies, legislatures, and payers provide the same advantages to all US civilian physical therapists?" with Lindsay Clark and Bryant Clark. You'll hear them share what prompted the study, some of what else has been published prior on this topic, additional evidence which would support PTs are safe and effective to see patients via direct access, some of the resistance to direct access for physical therapists, other studies on this topic, the clinical implications and big takeaways.

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In S7E10 of Inside the Science, we're highlighting the study, "International Framework for Red Flags for Potential Serious Spinal Pathologies" with Dr. Laura Finucane. You'll hear her give the backstory of the need for better abilities to pick on serious pathology through red flag identification, how prevalent these conditions are, a suggested three-step process on how a clinician might approach these scenarios, the risk factors related to four more common serious pathology conditions, the clinical implications, and big takeaways.

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