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Exercise programs and rigid bracing reduce pain in people with vertebral fractures.
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Exercise and bracing may not increase activity or quality of life after vertebral fracture.
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Exercise is not associated with harm after vertebral fracture.
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Patients should not rely on low back pain information from Brazilian official websites.
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The Brazilian official websites do not follow the recommendations from clinical practice guidelines.
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Brazilian official websites show low credibility standards and inaccurate information about low back pain.
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Shared decision making helps to translate evidence into practice.
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It can improve communication and accuracy of intervention expectations.
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Physical therapists are ideally positioned to practice shared decision making.
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Shared decision making is a skill that should be taught to clinicians.
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Strategies to increase its uptake are required at multiple levels.
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Pain is a common problem in the field of pediatrics.
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To date, pain education resources for young children are lacking.
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A comic book about pain education can be a useful method to present pain concepts to children.
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Pain education can contribute to changing children's maladaptive beliefs and behaviors.
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Beliefs that some strategies to lift a light load may be harmful are common among health care professionals, particularly medical students and doctors.
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The majority of qualified physical therapists are aware that all strategies used to lift a light load are safe.
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Taking a pain education course positively impacts physical therapists’ attitudes and beliefs.
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The general course of acute low back pain does not reflect the aging heterogeneity.
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Older adults with acute low back pain have varied pain and disability trajectories.
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Complete recovery trajectories and persistent severe trajectories were identified.
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Worse biopsychosocial health was associated with persistent severe trajectories.
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Specific clinical care for different courses of low back pain can be implemented.
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Infrared thermography (IRT) is a noninvasive tool that can assess the pelvic floor (PF) muscles.
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IRT detected changes in colors percentage at rest and during PF muscles contraction.
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There is a strong correlation between vaginal manometry and temperature of PF.
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IRT is a promising new method to assess the PFM.
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Normative hip external rotation (ER) torque values were based on 451 athletes.
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Between-limb asymmetry in hip ER torque was higher in basketball athletes.
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Soccer athletes have greater hip ER torque than basketball and volleyball athletes.
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No evidence was found that photobiomodulation applied during combined training promote any additional effects.
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Participants already adapted to a specific stimulus or previously trained do not benefit from the use of photobiomodulation for recovery.
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Photobiomodulation was not superior to placebo and control on functional, clinical, and systemic outcomes.
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Full-text access is essential for evidence-based practice.
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Free full text is available for 51% (95% CI: 44, 58) of articles in PEDro.
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PEDro provides 4% better access (95% CI: 1, 7) to free full text than PubMed.
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Free full-text access via PEDro did not change with year or location.
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A PDF locator website increased access to free full text by 9% (95% CI: 6, 14).