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Clinician and Patient Resources
International Spine and Pain Institute
- I S P I FREE RESOURCES: Library of great resources for patients and providers, including questionnaires, patient exercises for variety of nerve related symptoms, research articles, etc.
Screening Tools
- STarT Back Screening Tool: Simple and effective tool for determining pathway for LBP patients.
- Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire: Gives insight into maladaptive beliefs, providing insight into need for further treatment approaches to reduce fear and address maladaptive beliefs.
- MYBACK: Low back pain self or clinician screening and prognosis tool with customized report and excellent resources.
- PICKUP: Proposed lower back pain screening tool.
- Choosing Wisely Website: A campaign that featured materials to help patients have conversations with their clinicians and empower them to ask questions about what tests and treatments were right for them.
Video Resources
What is Pain?
Tame the Beast
- Reshaping how we think about pain (particularly chronic pain), Lorimer Mosely lays out the new approach to reducing and thinking of pain in the video. Helpful to watch and digest as a provider, then determine how to best translate and disseminate the themes for your population. Tamethebeast.org
Why Things Hurt
- Another short YouTube video that details a biopsychosocial explanation of pain in simple terms.
Contact Information
Dr. Ali Hartman, P T, D P T
phone: 6 0 9 6 0 5 9 0 5 8 email: a h a r t m a n @ pro – activity dot c o