The clinical reasoning of pain by experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapists

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-49

  Smart, Keith ^a   Doody, Catherine ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Clinical reasoning; Pain; Physiotherapists

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BIOMEDICINE; CHRONICITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PURPOSIVE SAMPLE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEORY-PRACTICE RELATIONSHIP; THINKING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERBALIZATION; VIDEOTAPE;

DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGIC; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33846564382     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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