"I've learned to look at things in a different way": exploring patients' perspectives on participation in physiotherapist delivered integrated stress inoculation training and exercise for acute whiplash

CONCLUSIONS: The majority of patients found the SIT techniques to be helpful in managing stress and pain, coping with their injury, and returning to function. The patients also found the exercises useful and acknowledged the importance of both the physical and the psychological aspects of whiplash injury.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONPatients with acute WAD at risk of poor recovery welcomed the inclusion of psychological strategies as part of physiotherapy treatment.The patients nominated both the psychological (SIT) component and exercise as assisting them with their stress, pain, and recovery.Physiotherapists could consider including strategies targeting early stress responses in their management of patients with acute WAD.PMID:34061695 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2021.1931480

Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - June 1, 2021 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Alma Viviana Silva Guerrero Jenny Setchell Annick Maujean Michele Sterling Source Type: research