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The latest research with long standing back pain is evolving to include a more multi-dimensional model when it comes to our approach to treatment. These are some interesting facts to consider when dealing with a patient with back pain.
These statistics show us that following a structural or patho-anatomical model would be detrimental to the care of our patients.
This evidence points to a bio-psycho-social model. This more updated model includes understanding patient’s beliefs and behaviours that drive their pain, understanding environmental factors that also affect their pain as well as always considering the biological factors that are present.
At Butel Health Services we are improving our treatment model to incorporate this new research. Namely, we are improving our categorisation and classification of each patient to improve outcomes.
Maladaptive patterns that patient’s have developed in order to unload an initial tissue injury, are now the most likely cause of their ongoing pain disorder. The patients are not only reinforcing their pain patterns through adaptive changes, but also creating new ones.
Treatment is derived from accurate classification of the patient’s back pain. As this research points out there is a small minority of patient’s with structural changes that need to managed medically, however, the majority of patient’s have minimal structural changes – more so maladaptive movement patterns that need to be identified and changed. Changing these movement patterns is usually the key to the resolution of their pain!
Reference: O’Sullivan, Peter. Diagnosis and classification of low back disorders: Mal-adaptive movement and motor control impairments as underlying mechanism.