Low Back Pain Archives - Dr. Jerome Fryer

Associations between physical or psychosocial risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in construction workers based on literature in the last 20 years: A systematic review
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Associations between physical or psychosocial risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in construction workers based on literature in the last 20 years: A systematic review

Low Back Pain, Research

Associations between physical or psychosocial risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in construction workers based on literature in the last 20 years: A systematic review

Goal of the Study? This article [1. Associations between physical or psychosocial risk factors and work-related musculoskeletal disorders in construction workers based on literature in the last 20 years: A systematic review] is a systematic review that aims to summarize the prevalence rates of working related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) and measure the associations between [...]

Empowering Patients Through Personalized Biomechanics
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Empowering Patients Through Personalized Biomechanics

Low Back Pain, Spine Education

Empowering Patients Through Personalized Biomechanics

Personalized Biomechanics As many of you know, I work to help patients get control of their back and neck pain. I learnt early on that if a patient can see and truly understand the source(s) of their pain triggers, they can begin to understand which movements may be causing the problem while other movements can wind [...]

Motion Sharing and Low Back Pain
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Motion Sharing and Low Back Pain

Low Back Pain, Pain, Research

Motion Sharing and Low Back Pain

The origin of chronic non-specific low back pain is difficult to determine, at least some seem to think so. So much so, the current trending understandings have almost given up on the mechanistic injury model and believe the source to be coming from the brain with the fear avoidance model leading the charge. However, what [...]

The language of chiropractic patient education No Nocebo
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The language of chiropractic patient education No Nocebo

Chiropractic, Intervertebral disc, Low Back Pain, Spine Education

The language of chiropractic patient education No Nocebo

The language we use as professionals is important. When I took my chiropractic oath in 1999, it was the "first do no harm" I believed to be most important. As I began practice I could hear myself speak about findings and I struggled in the beginning to translate findings like 'degenerative disc disease' to the patient [...]

Systematic Review Encourages Education for Low Back Pain
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Systematic Review Encourages Education for Low Back Pain

Low Back Pain, Research

Systematic Review Encourages Education for Low Back Pain

In a recent study published in the European Journal of Pain [1. Wong JJ, Côté P, Sutton DA, Randhawa K, Yu H, Varatharajan S, Goldgrub R, Nordin M, Gross DP, Shearer HM, Carroll LJ,Stern PJ, Ameis A, Southerst D, Mior S, Stupar M, Varatharajan T, Taylor-Vaisey A. Clinical practice guidelines for the noninvasive management of low back [...]