Articles previously published in The BackCare Journal, Talkback, and BackCare’s Membership Newsletter.
Articles from previous issues of Talkback can be found in our online database. You can search by treatment / therapy or by subject. You can also search by name, if you know the name of the author of the article you are looking for.
The ten most recent articles are listed below. For more articles, select a subject or therapy or search by author.
Talkback Articles
- 2010A personal account of the Department of Work and Pensions strategy on people with back pain. Dr. Andrew Auty
- 2010The overarching message that arises from the clinical trials of treatments for chronic low back pain is that current interventions provide only small short term benefits when compared to sham treatment or no treatment.
- 2010This paper considers the status of NICE guidelines in general and challenges clinicians to consider how they are responding to the back pain guidelines in practice.
- 2010Stop trying to cure us and START LISTENING. Research at Bournemouth University helps primary care teams improve care for people with back pain
- 2010A new evidence-based guide on musculoskeletal problems has been published with sponsorship from BackCare, intended for both the workplace and the clinic. It describes how to manage musculoskeletal problems effectively by addressing psychosocial obstacles taking account of biological and biomechanical factors.
- 2010A review of lumbar extension research. The three authors summarised research to date examining the usefulness of a machine designed to measure the strength of the lumbar extensor muscles.
- 2010In this thought provoking feature Prof Sparkes examines how sufferers give meaning to pain, and how this process of narration influences the way people make sense of their experiences of pain, to themselves and others.
- 2010A review of the current clinical and medico-legal position.
- 2010The British Chiropractic Association has a new President, Richard Brown talks about his agenda for change and his aspirations for the UK's largest chiropractic association.
- 2010Helpline Volunteer Lyn has just gone through the surgical procedure of dynesys stabilisation and she has agreed to allow us to follow her progress through a series of articles over the next couple of years