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Other soft tissue disorders
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Persistent musculoskeletal pain is when people have pain in their bones, joints, muscles, tendons or other soft tissues for three months or longer. People with the condition often have difficulty with physical activity, working and socialising. They often have other health problems.
Many people with persistent musculoskeletal pain attend pain management programmes to help them with rehabilitation and to self-manage their condition. This includes helping people to do more physical activity, which helps with pain, movement and mental health. Physical activity needs to be kept up lifelong to continue benefiting from it. However, many people with the condition have difficulty keeping physically active after the pain management programme has finished and there are many potential barriers they can face.
This research aims to develop an intervention that will help people with persistent musculoskeletal pain keep physically active after a pain management programme.
Firstly, people with persistent musculoskeletal pain, their physical activity partners and healthcare professionals working on pain management programmes will be interviewed about their experiences, barriers and facilitators to keeping physically active after a programme. Secondly, people with persistent musculoskeletal pain will be asked to complete questionnaires and wear a physical activity monitor straight after finishing a programme and six months later to identify factors associated with keeping up physical activity. In the six-month questionnaire they will also be asked to identify what think they may help them to keep up their physical activity. Lastly, the intervention will be designed with a group of people with persistent musculoskeletal pain, their physical activity partners and healthcare professionals working on pain management programmes in co-design workshops.
Start dates may differ between countries and research sites. The research team are responsible for keeping the information up-to-date.
The recruitment start and end dates are as follows:
Observational type: Qualitative;
You can take part if:
You may not be able to take part if:
work package 1: Patient participants - They have any health condition where moderate to vigorous physical activity is contraindicated/permitted (e.g., unstable or uncontrolled heart condition). - People that are pregnant - People that are unable to provide consent. Physical activity partners - Unable to provide consent. There will no specific exclusions for healthcare professional participants. work package 2: - They have any health condition where moderate to vigorous physical activity is contraindicated/permitted (e.g., unstable or uncontrolled heart condition). - People that are pregnant - People that are unable to provide consent. work package 3: Patient participants: - They have any health condition where moderate to vigorous physical activity is contraindicated/permitted (e.g., unstable or uncontrolled heart condition). - People that are pregnant - People that are unable to provide consent. Physical activity partners - Unable to provide consent. There will no specific exclusions for healthcare professional participants.
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The study is sponsored by ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL NHS TRUST and funded by NIHR Academy .
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