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Global Back Pain Research Initiative

We’re inviting people from around the world to take part in a global back pain research project. By sharing your personal experience through the Back Pain Systems App, you’ll help build one of the largest datasets on how back pain affects real lives — and contribute to a better understanding of what people truly need to heal.

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STUDY 1

When palpatory-based methods and observation-based methods are used in isolation (two testers) at the same time, the results gained during a musculoskeletal screening of a person will be similar?

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STUDY 2

Tester rotation! When palpatory-based methods and observation-based methods are used in isolation (two testers) at the same time, the results gained during a musculoskeletal screening of a person will be similar?

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STUDY 3

During inter-tester and intra-tester studies, can conducting an interview with the testers post experiment will help to explain the reasons for the poor inter-tester and inter-modality discrepancies in previous studies.

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STUDY 4

Tester rotation! When palpatory-based methods and observation-based methods are used in isolation (two testers) at the same time, the results gained during a musculoskeletal screening of a person will be similar?

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STUDY 5

To investigate when all proposed measurement theories for HODA-A (Figure 41) are applied and parallax error (a known visual perspective error) is controlled for, how reliable and accurate are testers HODA-A performance.

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STUDY 6

To investigate when all proposed measurement theories for HODA-A are applied and both parallax and perspective errors (known visual perspective errors) are controlled for, how reliable and accurate is a testers HODA-A performance.

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STUDY 7

In a larger scale study, replicating experiment 6 methodology, investigating when all proposed measurement theories for HODA-A are applied, and both parallax and perspective errors (known visual perspective errors) are controlled for, how reliable and accurate is a testers HODA-A performance, and, by doing so, does it support levels of acceptability in healthcare.

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STUDY 8

Replicating experiment 6 methodology, this experiment focused on exploring Sensorimotor Memory Stimulation, investigating if attitudes or biases of tester’s during a MSK assessment disrupt the level of agreement and percentage correct outcomes of HODA-A.

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STUDY 9

A small-scale pilot study was conducted, using 3D Mocap as the independent gold standard test, to explore if a tester HODA-A has concurrent validity, and can be used as a valid measurement instrument when conducting manual MSK assessments.

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