Alessandro Chiarotto

Out today a clinical practice review on non-specific low back pain that @bartkoes and I wrote for the @NEJM. We synthesized the best available evidence on the management of patients with low #BackPain. Hope it will be a useful resource for clinicians. bit.ly/3wcsgVs

When Is a Prognostic Prediction Model Ready for Clinical Use? A Primer for Clinicians | Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

Defining and interpreting between-group differences in clinical trials of patients with osteoarthritis: challenges and potential solutions - Osteoarthritis and Cartilage oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

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/

🎯 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_current & @bmj_latest doi.org/10.1001/jama.2…

🚨 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…

📣New study in @TheJournal_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. @SamAWilliamsAU 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.jpai…

Review: A network meta-analysis from Zhu, Dr. @PhysioAlex & 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-…

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/

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… @PeteOSullivanPT @CGMMaher @TheLancetRheum

In partnership with the United States Association for the Study of Pain (@US_ASP), @TheJournal_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…

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

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 @ChiroAustralia @ECUchiropractic @royalcolchiro @kiroviden

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/

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 @PhysioAlex and team.

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

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…

@PhysioMeScience Thank you for sharing our SR with NMA! But please do not forget to mention that these findings you mention were all underpinned by VERY LOW confidence evidence (based on the CINEMA approach).

Effectiveness of Non-surgical Interventions for Patients With Acute and Subacute Sciatica: A SR With NMA pain (short term) : NSAIDs+ physical therapy modalities function: music therapy🎶 😅 pain & function (long term): steroids 👇👇👇 jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

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

@omidrezaNouri @DrSethPT @JOSPT We included any form of IPE on this review. We did subgroup analyses for IPE with or without pain physiology edu and we found no differences...

@PhysioAlex @DrSethPT @JOSPT thnx for share. but what form of Edu? Pain neuroscience or Biomechanical or manage Mythconceptions...

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. 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 @msk_health, University of Sydney. More info 👉 sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c… Feel free to reach out if you're interested! @CGMMaher