I was pleased to read Dr Quintner’s contribution in our national publication (‘Philosophical hurdles for musculoskeletal pain’, InMotion February 2020). Any discussion that promotes best practice physiotherapy is valuable.

It is well known that the gold standard for chronic pain management for adults and children involves biopsychosocial care in multidisciplinary teams (Harrison et al 2019).

About 50 per cent of people who have incurred a whiplash associated disorder in a motor vehicle crash will not have recovered within a year post injury, says Professor Michele Sterling, citing national and international data.

Lead investigator Associate Professor Peter Malliaras outlines his team’s study examining the efficacy of tendon sheath injection for Achilles tendinopathy, and invites you to become involved.

In her role as a senior physiotherapist with the Queensland Interdisciplinary Paediatric Persistent Pain Service (QIPPPS) at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Bec Fechner supports children and their families to understand the biopsychosocial complexity of persistent pain.

Have you ever stopped to think of the role you play in influencing the long-term health outcomes of your patients? We are often focused on the short-term results of an episode of treatment, but how do we create long-term change to help our patients achieve healthy habits, improve resilience and health literacy to avoid injury into the future?

Mark Hancock one of the authors of ‘Risk of recurrences of low back pain: a prospective inception cohort study’, elaborates on this research, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy.

Among those who recover from low back pain, do we know much about whether it reoccurs?