Individual Education for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Likely a Clinically Relevant Effect for Long-term Disability Compared to Noneducational Interventions. A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266700/

The SPIRIT 2025 statement provides guidance on items to address in trial protocols, reflecting methodological advances and feedback from users bmj.com/content/389/bm…

📢Just published! Our systematic review assessed the measurement properties of all EQ-5D versions in children and adolescents. A key resource for those working with PROM and pediatric health economics link.springer.com/article/10.100… Tie Parma Yamato Gisela Miyamoto Veronica Souza Alessandro Chiarotto

Interested to know what is the effectiveness of individual patient education in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain? Read our systematic review with meta-analys of RCTs published in JOSPT Community. Feel free to reach out to have the full-text! jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

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

Our latest #Review determines that an individual #Education based treatment helps patients with chronic #LowBackPain reduce long-term disability Take a look at how the review was conducted and see what other insights the authors gained ➡️ ow.ly/BzxJ50VPJwF #yourJOSPT

Effectiveness of Non-surgical Interventions for Patients With Acute and Subacute Sciatica: A Systematic Review With Network Meta-Analysis | Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

Developing classification criteria for spine osteoarthritis: is it the right time? Read our commentary published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals, from a stellar interedisciplinary team! oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

Classification criteria exist for knee, hip and hand OA - so it it the right time for for spine OA? Check out our editorial in O&C here: oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-… - and please be in touch for the full text read. From Alessandro Chiarotto and team.

Prognostic ability of the sTarT back screening tool for disability and pain intensity outcomes in older adults with low back pain seeking chiropractic care: a multi-national external validation study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40739574/

Prognostic ability of the sTarT back screening tool for disability & pain intensity outcomes in older adults with LBP seeking chiropractic care: a multi-national external validation study chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #ChiroTM Chiro Australia European Chiropractors' Union The Royal College of Chiropractors Kiropraktorernes Videnscenter

NEW PAPER: the CHART reporting guideline for studies evaluating generative AI models like #ChatGPT & other #LLMs for providing health advice bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/e0… The explanation & elaboration paper bmj.com/content/390/bm… #genAI #chatbots #healthadvice #reporting

In partnership with the United States Association for the Study of Pain (US Association for the Study of Pain), The Journal of Pain announces an opening for 5 early career editorial fellow positions to begin on January 1, 2026. Application due on November 1, 2025 For more info: usasp.org/_files/ugd/a24…

Our 3-year follow up of the RESTORE trial shows sustained effects of CFT for chronic low back pain. Paper out today in Lancet Rheumatology. Read here:thelancet.com/journals/lanrh… Peter O'Sullivan Chris Maher The Lancet Rheumatology

Test-retest Reliability and Measurement Error of the Numerical Rating Scale and Visual Analogue Scale in People with Low Back Pain pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40812541/

Review: A network meta-analysis from Zhu, Dr. Alessandro Chiarotto & coll. found some non-surgical interventions (spinal manipulation, exercise+neural mobilization, etc) may reduce short-term pain in chronic sciatica, but evidence remains very uncertain FREE: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

📣New study in The Journal of Pain shows that the reliability of the NRS and VAS is acceptable in people with low back pain, but their measurement errors are higher than usual minimal important change scores. Sam Williams 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jpai…

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨 How well do diagnostic models perform in identifying spinal fractures? We explored this question in our new systematic review published in eClinicalMedicine (The Lancer group, IF 10). Thread 👇 thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

🎯 TARGET Guideline published 🎉 TARGET is a reporting guideline for observational studies of interventions that use the target trial framework. Over 3 years it was rigorously developed and was co-published today in JAMA & The BMJ doi.org/10.1001/jama.2…

Effectiveness of mobile apps in the rehabilitation of patients with low back pain. A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40976546/