- Title
- The perceptions of individuals with musculoskeletal disorders towards prognosis: An exploratory qualitative study
- Creator
- Mullen, Nicholas; Ashby, Samantha; Haskins, Robin; Osmotherly, Peter
- Relation
- Musculoskeletal Care Vol. 21, Issue 2, p. 527-536
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/msc.1728
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Question(s): How do individuals living with musculoskeletal disorders perceive the concept of prognosis?Design: Exploratory phenomenological study.Participants: Individuals aged 18 years or older currently experiencing a musculoskeletal disorder.Data analysis: Single semi-structured one-on-one interviews were conducted. Data was analysed using inductive coding and thematic analysis.Results: Five themes were identified. First, participants defined prognosis as the likely outcome associated with their diagnosis. Their prognosis was often associated with outcomes related to pain, tissue health, and function. Second, participants perceived pain as having a negative impact on their prognosis by limiting their function and having a psychological impact. Third, participants held biomedical views in that tissue health was perceived as a cause for their pain and that tissue healing was essential for pain cessation. It was also difficult for participants to distinguish between pain related to tissue damage, and pain that was not. Fourth, participants use their ability to complete leisure and functional activities to determine the success of their recovery. Finally, participants perceived receiving individual prognoses for pain, tissue health, and function that may be simultaneously occurring as both important and beneficial.Conclusion: Overall, participants viewed receiving prognostic information as important and beneficial. When constructing their views on prognosis participants perceived that pain, tissue health, and functional ability could all impact upon prognosis, whilst having a prognosis of their own. Physiotherapists should consider conceptualising and discussing prognosis in terms of pain, tissue health, and function when managing musculoskeletal disorders.
- Subject
- musculoskeletal pain; patients; physical therapy; prognosis; qualitative
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1483630
- Identifier
- uon:51151
- Identifier
- ISSN:1478-2189
- Rights
- © 2022 The Authors. Musculoskeletal Care published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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