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An International Journal of Physical Therapy
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Qualitative Research Report

“Selling” chronic pain: physiotherapists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of chronic nonspecific lower back pain to their patients

Nick Sullivan MSc, BSc (hons), MCSPa Sutton Health & Care Alliance, Physiotherapy Department, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Clair Hebron PhD, MSc, PGCert, BSc (hons), MMACP, MCSPb Faculty of Health and Social Science, Department of Physiotherapy, University of Brighton, Eastbourne, UK
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Pirjo Vuoskoski PhD, MSc, PT, MCSPc Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences (Physiotherapy), University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Pages 973-992 | Received 31 Dec 2018, Accepted 27 Aug 2019, Published online: 20 Nov 2019

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Zoe A. Leyland, David M. Walton & Elizabeth Anne Kinsella. (2023) “Maybe I would’ve been more comfortable in my Ignorance?”: Exploring future physical therapist’s lived experience of an elective pain science course. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 39:12, pages 2688-2697.
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David A Nicholls & Adriane Vieira. (2023) Physiotherapy, movement, and action. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 39:12, pages 2520-2538.
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David A. Nicholls, Birgitte Ahlsen, Wenche Bjorbækmo, Tone Dahl-Michelsen, Heidi Höppner, Anna Ilona Rajala, Robert Richter, Louise Søgaard Hansen, Tobba Sudmann, Randi Sviland & Filip Maric. (2023) Critical physiotherapy: a ten-year retrospective. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 0:0, pages 1-13.
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William V. King & Clair Hebron. (2023) Frozen shoulder: living with uncertainty and being in “no-man’s land”. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 39:5, pages 979-993.
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Abigail Grover Snook, Solveig A Arnadottir & Roma Forbes. (2023) A survey of patient education practices and perceptions of physiotherapists: a mixed methods study. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 39:4, pages 772-784.
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Anne Thackeray, Jackie Waring, Thomas J. Hoogeboom, Maria W. G. Nijhuis-van Der Sanden, Rachel Hess, Julie M. Fritz, Molly B. Conroy & Maria E. Fernandez. (2022) Implementing a Dutch Physical Therapy Intervention Into a U.S. Health System: Selecting Strategies Using Implementation Mapping. Frontiers in Public Health 10.
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Ron Feldman, Yaniv Nudelman, Sharon Haleva‐Amir & Noa Ben Ami. (2021) Patients' prior perceptions and expectations of the Enhanced Transtheoretical Model Intervention for chronic low back pain: A qualitative study. Musculoskeletal Care 20:2, pages 371-382.
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Josh Cosgrove & Clair Hebron. (2020) ‘Getting them on board’: Musculoskeletal physiotherapists conceptions of management of persons with low back pain. Musculoskeletal Care 19:2, pages 199-207.
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Elles Hartholt, Pirjo Vuoskoski & Clair Hebron. (2020) Physiotherapists' lived experiences of decision making in therapeutic encounters with persons suffering from whiplash‐associated disorder: A hermeneutic phenomenological study. Musculoskeletal Care 18:4, pages 519-526.
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Josh Wellman, Luke Murray, Clair Hebron & Pirjo Vuoskoski. (2020) Pain Education in the Context of Non‐Specific Low Back Pain: The Lived Experience of the Physiotherapist. An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Musculoskeletal Care 18:3, pages 271-300.
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