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What is the definition of rehabilitation?

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“The restoration of normal form and function

after injury or illness”

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Please describe the concept of passive care?

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Clinician as Healer, Patient as Recipient
 Manipulation
 Traction
 Physical modalities (EMS, ultrasound, laser)

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Please describe the concept of active care?

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Clinician as Coach, Patient as Active Participant
 Strengthening
 Postural reeducation
 Motor control

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What categories are pain classified as?

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ACUTE and CHRONIC pain

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Please describe what acute pain is?

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  1. Short term pain (
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Please describe what chronic pain is?

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  1. Persistent / longstanding
  2. Usually not an indicator of ongoing tissue damage
  3. Hurt usually does not = harm
  4. No longer a useful warning sign
  5. Biopsychosocial factors are very relevant
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Victims of lifestyle?

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 Lack of physical fitness
- Strength
- Endurance
- Flexibility
 Being overweight
 Smoking
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What are some key assumptions of the traditional model about pain and tissue disease/ injury? (MAY NOW BE PROVEN INSUFFICIENT)

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 Pain is the result of tissue damage/injury
 Pain transmission is directly from the periphery to the brain
 The amount of pain is directly proportional
to the extent of tissue damage/injury

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1% of LBP caused by serious disease such as?

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Cancer

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1% of LBP caused by inflammatory disease such as?

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Arthritis

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5% of LBP is what?

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True sciatica

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The vast majority of LBP is what?

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nonspecific or “idiopathic”

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The relationship between symptoms and pathology?

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The relationship is quite poor. A patient may have severe pain but minimal-to-no tissue damage or disease, but on the other hand you may have a patient with severe pain and severe tissue damage/ disease etc

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Name 4 poor predictors of disability?

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  1. X-Rays and MRI scans
  2. History of trauma
  3. Type of work
  4. Back function/screening tools
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Name 3 good predictors of disability?

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  1. The “psychosocial” factors…
  2. Physical de-conditioning
  3. Mental health
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What are some limitations of the traditional model?

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• IN REALITY pathology and tissue damage not directly
related to pain intensity
• It is possible to have tissue damage without reporting pain
• It is possible to have pain without observable tissue
damage or pathology
• It is possible to have a very different outcome (e.g. pain
and function) from the same treatment for the same
problem.

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Just read and know!

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“The degree of reported pain, functional limitation and
disability are frequently disproportionate to any observed
pathology / impairment or disability”

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Chronic pain is not ‘All in the mind’, made up,
psychosomatic or psychological and patients are
not malingering and do not have psychological
overlay, rather it is now recognised as?

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• perceptual process
• a combination of biological, psychological and
social factors – the biopsychosocial framework (even in acute phase)
• We need to be mindful of these factors and we
need to be able to assess and address them.

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Please describe the Freudian Approach- Psychoanalytic Thinking (Id, Ego, Superego)

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  • conscious or unconscious guilt with pain serving
    as a form of atonement, or the development of pain to replace feelings of loss
  • serious methodological and conceptual concerns
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Please describe the Behaviourist Models by

B.F. Skinner

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 The human mind is conceptualized as a black box
thinking
 No consideration given to emotions
 Rewards given to promote / extinguish behaviours
e.g., no RTW & get lots of attention

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Please describe Cognitive Approaches by

Aaron Beck

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Thought processes are at the heart of feelings and

behaviour and are all connected

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Cognitive behavioural therapy

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draw this out from lecture

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How to change cognitive behaviour?

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 Cognitive restructuring; identify, challenge & reframe negative automatic negative thoughts
 Behavioural activation; increase the pleasant event frequency & decrease avoidance behaviours
 Relapse prevention

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What are the best outcomes for a patient with LBP?

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 sudden onset of acute LBP of short duration
 without multiple pain sites, with previous episodes,
 good health
 no psychological issues
 constituted the vast majority of practice (85%)

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What are poor outcomes for a patient with LBP?
``` Chronicity - Pain duration > 30 days - Pain in other locations Co-morbidity - General Health - Treatment reimbursed as indicator of recipient of social benefits for disability - Depression & Anxiety ```
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The biopsychosocial framework
DRAW IT OUT OF LECTURE
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What actually causes the "bio" bit in biopsychosocial chronic pain?
- Peripheral and central sensitisation - Causes: Hyperalgesia; There is an increase in the magnitude and duration of response to stimuli. (i.e what was perceived as a painful stimuli is perceived as more painful) Allodynia; There is a reduction in threshold causing an increase in the frequency of neuron firing so that low intensity stimuli not normally noxious, become so (i.e. stimuli that was perceived as non-painful is now perceived as painful) ```  Changes may last from hours to years  In certain cases these changes can become pathological leading to unresolved persistent pain,  But also spontaneously resolve? ```
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How important are psychosocial factors
``` Psychosocial factors are MORE important than physical, biomedical or tx factors in:  Pain perception  The continued report of symptoms  Health care seeking  Response to treatment  Overall outcome  The prediction of disability  The development of disability  The maintenance of disability  Prolonged work loss ```
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Name 5 key psychosocial issues?
```  Pain beliefs  Fear avoidance  Catastrophising  Self Efficacy/Locus of control  Co-morbid psychological problems  Anxiety, depression, etc ```
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Please describe the two main types of pain beliefs?
```  ‘Organic’ Pain Beliefs  Hurt = Harm  More hurt = more harm  ‘Psychological’ Pain Beliefs  Worrying about pain makes it worse  Relaxing makes pain easier ```
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What are the 4 characteristics of fear?
- avoidance behaviour - psychophysiological reactivity - worry - attention processes: hypervigilance
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Treatment of phobias?
- exposure in vivo - challenging catastrophic expectations - following a fear hierarchy
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Fear avoidance model
DRAW IT!
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Please explain graded- exposure and its 3 steps.
 Graded exposure (GE): exposes patients to specific situations of which they are fearful during rehabilitation  Step 1: identify specific activities feared by the patient  Step 2: expose patient to activity which elicits minimal amounts of fear  Step 2: gradually increase to situations that elicit larger amounts of fear
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what is graded exercise?
 Graded exercise (GEX): encourages confrontation by improving patients’ exercise or activity tolerance. - GEX is not based on what the patient is fearful of; instead, it is based on whether the patient meets predetermined quota levels set by the clinician. - More evidence of benefit for GEX than GE - Very little evidence for or against GE
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please describe catastrophising?
```  Characterised by excessively negative thoughts  An exaggerated focus on pain sensation - e.g. "I can’t stop thinking about how much it hurts“  A magnification of level of threat - e.g. “I might make it much worse”  A perceived inability to cope - e.g. “There’s nothing I can do to control the pain” ```
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Catastrophising is associated with increased what?
 Level of pain  Risk of pain onset  Risk of pain-related disability  Psychological distress
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Catastrophisers are more likely to engage in | activities which?
communicate their pain than adopt strategies that might reduce it
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Clinicians as a psychosocial influence: latrogenic distress?
Diagnosis  Conflicting diagnosis or explanations resulting in confusion, frustration, anger and loss of faith in health profession(s)  Unfamiliar diagnostic language leading to catastrophising (fear of an inevitable poor outcome) Treatment  Dramatisation of condition by health professional - results in dependency on treatments  Continuation of passive treatment  Vague, inappropriate, alarming, contradictory, advice, information and management Function  Advice from professional to change or withdraw from activities or job, PABS.PT?  Health professionals have sanctioned disability, not providing interventions geared towards improving function  Explanations not related to patients function and future prognosis
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What are the goals of a practitioner to help reduce/ avoid psychosocial patient behaviours?
 Discourage passive / negative coping strategies  Challenge misconceptions, unhelpful thoughts, beliefs and behaviour  Address FAB’s  Help ID what they are avoiding/ finding difficult and how they can gradually build up to it  Encourage active self management  Avoid / discourage work absence
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How not to communicate with your LBP patients as a doctor?
* “Your back is damaged” * “You have the back of a 70-year-old” * “It’s wear and tear” * “You have degeneration/ arthritis/ disc bulge/ disc disease/a slipped disc”
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How not to tell your patient to cope with LBP?
* “You have to be careful/take it easy from now on” * “Your back is weak” * “You should avoid bending/lifting”
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How we SHOULD communicate with our patient with LBP
•“Back pain does not mean your back is damaged – it means it is sensitised” • “Your back can be sensitised by awkward movements and postures, muscle tension, inactivity, lack of sleep, stress, worry and low mood” • “Most back pain is linked to minor sprains that can be very painful” • “Sleeping well, exercise, a healthy diet and cutting down on your smoking will help your back as well” • “The brain acts as an amplifier - the more you worry and think about your pain, the worse it gets”
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How to promote resilience to your patient?
•“Your back is one of the strongest structures of the body” • “It’s very rare to do permanent damage to your back”
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How to address concerns about imaging results and pain to your patient?
•“Your scans changes are normal, like grey hair” • “The pain does not mean you are doing damage – your back is sensitive” • “movements will be painful at first – like an sprained ankle – but they will get better as you get active”
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Why to teach your patients to be positive about their recovery?
“Our results suggest that patients with high levels of fear-avoidance beliefs about work activities are unlikely to respond to manipulation. These individuals likely require an alternative treatment approach.”
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Distress risk assessment method, what 2 things are used?
 Zung Depression Inventory (23 items) |  Modified Somatic Perceptions Qn (22 items)
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What are the PROMIS 8
Emotional Distress: 4 items  I felt fearful; never (1) through to always(5)  I found it hard to focus on anything other than my anxiety;  My worries overwhelm me  I felt uneasy ``` Depression; 4 items  I felt worthless  I felt helpless  I felt depressed  I felt hopeless ``` Classification of scores  Normal Depression & Anxiety scores (t 50)  Distressed Anxiety (t > 50)
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BELIEFS
 catastrophizing, thinking the worst  belief that pain is uncontrollable  low educational background  beliefs that pain must be completely gone before RTW
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BEHAVIOURS
```  passive attitude to rehabilitation  reduced activity with significant withdrawal from ADLs  avoidance of normal activity  impaired sleep because of pain ```
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EMOTIONS
```  depression  feeling useless and not needed  irritability, feeling under stress and no sense of control  disinterest in social activity  over-protective partner/spouse ```
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WORK
 belief that pain is harmful, resulting in fear avoidance behaviour  belief that all pain must be abolished before attempting to RTW or normal activity  expectation of increased pain with activity or work  belief that work is harmful

CHI442 - Primary Practice - Physical Rehab 1 (6 decks)

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