Emily Walker
@emwalker_exphys
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Exercise Physiologist | PhD Candidate at UNSW and NeuRA
Joined March 2023
One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care
jamanetwork.com
This randomized clinical trial compares the effects of 1-page fact sheets that adopt either an information-listing approach or a direct advice approach on management of low back pain to prepare...
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It’s been great to share my thoughts and research on here, however I will be leaving X to move over to BlueSky 🦋 . You can follow me here: @emwalkerexphys.bsky.social.
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-“I empower the patient” – How do you do that? The only ability you have is to create the conditions for the patient to empower themself.
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-We don’t need more time to do person-centred care. It’s how we look at it in the whole context, it is more efficient, it removes unnecessary and repetitive work we get stuck because we see it as an additional thing we do rather than just changing what we are doing.
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-Rehab means returning to previous state. What if you don’t want to return to that? What if you want to be completely different?.-Reframing “What are your goals” to “What would you like to do or who would you like to be”?.
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"Listen to me, learn from me & hear what I am telling you, it makes me feel that my concerns have been understood"."Provide a holistic approach to my care that is tailored & looks after my physical,mental,occupational,social,spiritual & intellectual needs".
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What are the care-seeking priorities of people living with chronic pain and carers and how can these shape interdisciplinary workforce training to improve high-value pain care? Phase 1: Australian...
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"I have found my voice. My suffering is given voice and is understood. I had time to tell my story. I wasn’t held back by fear of being judged. People listen to me, hear me, and see me. I am validated, believed, and taken seriously.".
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"I have made sense of my pain. My pain is real. I now understand my pain better. My pain no longer frightens me. It is no longer threatening. I am less afraid & anxious. I feel that I can manage. I have some control back. I understand my body & pain & am starting a new journey.".
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4 of the themes describe what it means to live with chronic pain & 6 of the themes describe what it means to be on a healing journey with pain. "A Healing Journey with Chronic Pain: A Meta-Ethnography Synthesizing 195 Qualitative Studies".
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Information provided was experienced as confronting, conflicting with deeply held beliefs . Accepting theory & applying learning in practice required reinforcements from multiple actors (family/media/public/health professionals). @rodrizzo_pain new paper!.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Patients' perceptions about PE should be monitored and might be addressed with communication strategies, educational content that matches patients' characteristics, and reinforcements over time.
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"System (e.g. biomedical orientation), organisational (e.g. key performance indicators) and professional (e.g. identity as expert) factors compete with person-centred rehabilitation.". Great work by @nickayes4 .
journals.sagepub.com
Objectives To (1) reflect on challenges to the practice of person-centred rehabilitation; and (2) propose opportunities for the development of person-centred re...
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Newly released by @nathaliaccosta1 🌟. If there’s one paper to catch you up on the current challenges with clinical practice, patient care and the healthcare system - this is it 💯.
link.springer.com
Background Low-quality care for low back pain (LBP) is pervasive in Australia. Drivers of low-quality care have been identified elsewhere and include misconceptions about LBP, vested interests and...
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When a patient receives a treatment for a MSK pain condition, the total treatment effect encompasses the specific effect of the treatment, contextual effects, and non-specific effects.
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Thank you @ChristopherACSM for the share!.
Great paper discussing the issues and challenges with implementation of evidence-based practice for chronic low-back pain. As you can see, there is a interplay between many factors that can influence evidence-based practice within the clinical setting.
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Thanks Australian Pain Society for putting the abstract of my recent paper in your newsletter this month 😁 @AusPainSoc #AusPainSoc
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Just focusing on whether or not individuals follow prescribed treatment simplifies 'adherence' by treating it as a matter of personal responsibility. Systems thinking highlights the broader, complex influences on behaviour that are often overlooked.
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Had a great time presenting at the Sydney Spinal Symposium today 🎉.
Great presentation from centre member @emwalker_exphys at the Sydney Spinal Symposium on clinicians experiences of using evidence based practice for chronic low back pain.
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