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🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨 Can Hospital-at-Home prevent functional decline in older adults? 🏠💪 Our latest systematic review & meta-analysis in Age and Ageing suggests supervised exercise in acute care significantly improves physical performance & independence! 📈 More

New The Lancet Rheumatology comment paper raises discussion on the challenges associated with #backpain management and risk of care escalation in emergency health services 👇 thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… Dr Simon Vella, Prof Peter Youssef, Prof Chris Maher, A/Prof Gustavo Machado

NEW COMMENT—Unwarranted escalation of care for back pain: a dilemma for emergency health services bit.ly/3XoQtWY Chris Maher Gustavo Machado Institute for Musculoskeletal Health

Our latest paper, published in The Lancet Rheumatology, led by Dr. Vella, one of our exceptional postdocs at Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, delves into a topic that has received relatively little attention.

Cognitive functional therapy showed sustained clinical efficacy compared with a sham procedure for treating pain intensity and disability in patients with chronic LBP. bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

Effectiveness of primary-contact physiotherapy in managing musculoskeletal conditions in emergency departments: protocol for the RESHAP-ED randomised controlled trial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40074281/

NICE Standard for low back pain and sciatica needs urgent revision Just published 🔥🔥 bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… Chris Maher Gustavo Machado Institute for Musculoskeletal Health

⚠️ Does the NICE Standard for low back pain and sciatica need urgent revision? 👀 Find out more in this NEW #Editorial 📄 READ ➡️ bit.ly/3YgCjaI

Just published 🔥 NICE Standard for low back pain and sciatica needs urgent revision bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

The NICE Standard for low back pain and sciatica needs urgent revision bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/… via Crystian Bitencourt Oliveira & Gustavo Machado et al Everyone except NICE is apparently aware of this!

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Now in JOSPT Community A synthesis of 57 qualitative studies detailing what helps or hinders people with chronic #LowBackPain from engaging in #PhysicalActivity ➡️ ow.ly/pIJc50VMgm9 #yourJOSPT

PhD Scholarship – Back Pain & Musculoskeletal Health Join me and our team at Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney. More info 👉 sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c… Feel free to reach out if you're interested! Chris Maher

Now in JOSPT Community A synthesis of 57 qualitative studies detailing what helps or hinders people with chronic #LowBackPain from engaging in #PhysicalActivity ➡️ ow.ly/pIJc50VMgm9 #yourJOSPT

In our new Conversation article, Simon Vella, Chris Maher and I explain why most back pain cases are best managed in primary care, and how ED visits can lead to low-value (and sometimes harmful) tests and treatments. Institute for Musculoskeletal Health 🔗 Read more: theconversation.com/too-many-peopl…

Why your doctor may not have given you the best advice for your lower back pain? In this new piece in The Conversation UK, we highlighted that many patients may be getting out-of-date advice from their GP. theconversation.com/why-your-docto… Gustavo Machado Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Sydney MSK