Karime Mescouto, Rebecca E Olson, Nathalia Costa, Kerrie Evans, Miriam Dillon, Niamh Jensen, Kelly Walsh, Megan Weier, Kathryn Lonergan, Paul W Hodges, Jenny Setchell
Chronic low back pain is characterised by multiple and overlapping biological, psychological, social and broader dimensions, affecting individuals' lives. Multidisciplinary pain services have been considered optimal settings to account for the multidimensionality of chronic low back pain but have largely focused on cognitive and behavioural aspects of individuals' pain. Social dimensions are usually underexplored, considered outside or beyond healthcare professionals' scope of practice. Employing Actor Network Theorist Mol's concept multiplicity, our aim in this paper is to explore how a pain service's practices bring to the fore the social dimensions of individuals living with low back pain...
November 26, 2022: Health (London)