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Facial expression overrides lumbopelvic kinematics for clinical judgements about low back pain intensity

Facial expression overrides lumbopelvic kinematics for clinical judgements about low back pain intensity Facial expression overrides lumbopelvic kinematics for clinical judgements about low back pain intensity
Facial expression overrides lumbopelvic kinematics for clinical judgements about low back pain intensity Facial expression overrides lumbopelvic kinematics for clinical judgements about low back pain intensity

Through real-time behavioral observation systems, pain behaviors are commonly used by clinicians to estimate pain intensity in patients with low back pain.

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Key take away

The present study lays emphasizes on the way, how clinicians rely on two low back pain (LBP) prototypical behaviors to gauge the pain intensity. Furthermore, to apprehend how clinicians elaborate pain-related judgements from nonverbal pain behaviors, the efficient role of Information Integration Theory (IIT) framework has been deduced.

Background

Through real-time behavioral observation systems, pain behaviors are commonly used by clinicians to estimate pain intensity in patients with low back pain. However, little is known about how clinicians rely on pain-related behaviors to make their judgment. According to the Information Integration Theory (IIT) framework, this study aimed at investigating how clinicians value and integrate information from lumbopelvic kinematics (LK), a protective pain behavior, and facial expression intensity (FEI), a communicative pain behavior, to estimate pain in patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP).

Method

Twenty-one experienced clinicians and twenty-one novice clinicians were asked to estimate back pain intensity from a virtual character performing a trunk flexion-extension task.

Result

Results revealed that both populations relied on facial expression and that only half of the participants in each group integrated FEI and LK to estimate cLBP intensity. Among participants who integrated the two pain behaviors, averaging rule predominated among others. Results showed that experienced clinicians relied equally on FEI and LK to estimate pain, whereas novice clinicians mostly relied on FEI.

Conclusion

The use of additive rule of integration does not appear to be systematic when assessing others’ pain. When assessing pain intensity, communicative and protective pain behaviors may have different relevance.

Source:

Pain Research and Management 2016 

Article:

Facial Expression Overrides Lumbopelvic Kinematics for Clinical Judgements about Low Back Pain Intensity

Authors:

A. Courbalay et al.

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