Managing shoulder pain: a meta-ethnography exploring healthcare providers' experiences

CONCLUSION: Healthcare providers working with people with shoulder pain struggle to reconcile, often conflicting, research recommendations with their own clinical experience, beliefs and patient expectations. These findings help explain the continued lack of consensus on how best to manage shoulder pain in clinical practice.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONHealthcare providers (HCPs) working with people with shoulder pain struggle to resolve conflicts between evidence-based recommendations, clinical experience, their own shoulder pain beliefs and patient expectations and preferences.Stronger collaboration across professional disciplines is needed to address the current lack of consensus on the management of shoulder pain.Many HCP's find it difficult to engage patients with shoulder pain in exercise and they work hard to "sell" this approach to patients using strategies such as education, shared decision making and therapeutic alliance.PMID:33847548 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2021.1897886
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Source Type: research