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The development of a model of care to reduce waiting times in outpatient musculoskeletal clinics: a multi-methods study
Gamble AR, Maher CG, McKay MJ, Anderson DB, Needs C, Harvey LA, Hutton JM, de Campos TF, MacPherson S, Foster NE, Halliday M, Chu J, Han CS, Zadro JR. The development of a model of care to reduce waiting times in outpatient musculoskeletal clinics: a multi-methods study. Musculoskelet Sci Pract. 2026 Apr 23;84:103560. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2026.103560. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42140159.
Development and acceptability of a patient decision aid for people with degenerative cervical myelopathy: an international mixed-methods study
Gamble AR, Anderson DB, McKay MJ, Davies B, Macpherson S, Van Gelder J, Hoffmann T, McCaffery K, Stevens SX, Ammendolia C, Chauhan RV, Zipser CM, Boerger TF, Tetreault LA, Fehlings MG, Dustan E, Nugent C, Holmgren H, Demetriades AK, Lantz JM, Dhillon R, Maher CG, Zadro JR. Development and acceptability of a patient decision aid for people with degenerative cervical myelopathy: an international mixed-methods study. BMJ Open. 2026 Apr 3;16(4):e106337. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-106337. PMID: 41932703; PMCID: PMC13052582.
Co-Designing the Early Pain Intervention After Knee Replacement (EPIK) Model of Care for People With Persistent Pain After Knee Replacement
Chadha N, Zadro JR, Adie S, Tchan M, Harris IA, Ackerman IN, Jenkin DE, Dear BF, Maher CG, Buchbinder R, Billot L, Cameron ID, Gregson T, Luck B, Ferreira GE; EPIK Study Group. Co-Designing the Early Pain Intervention After Knee Replacement (EPIK) Model of Care for People With Persistent Pain After Knee Replacement. Health Expect. 2026 Apr;29(2):e70655. doi: 10.1111/hex.70655. PMID: 41914893; PMCID: PMC13125727.
Suitability of the Numerical Pain Rating Scale for measuring pain in clinical trials evaluating interventions for people with shoulder disorders according to the OMERACT filter 2.2
Furtado R, Marmura H, Haas R, Ramiro S, Verhagen A, Whittle S, Beaton D, Shea B, Richards P, Gagnier J, Buchbinder R.
Robotic-assisted surgery and functional alignment in total knee arthroplasty: the RASKAL registry-nested 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial
MacDessi SJ, Wernecke GC, Ghadirinejad K, Wood JA, Holder C, Lorimer M, Harris IA; and the RASKAL Study Group; Bastiras D, Boyle R, Chen DB, Du P, Fritsch B, Guzman M, Kirsh G, Leong A, Limbers J, McEwen P, McMahon S, Mulford J, Oakey H, Penn D, Yu J. Robotic-assisted surgery and functional alignment in total knee arthroplasty: the RASKAL registry-nested 2 × 2 factorial randomized trial. Bone Joint J. 2026 Apr 7;108-B:622-633. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.108B.BJJ-2025-1472.R2. PMID: 41944850.
What do the general public believe about back pain? A scoping review of population-based studies
Chang JR, Maher CG, Sharma S, Altinger G, Van Wyk A, Wong AY, Buchbinder R, Bailly F, Jenkins H, Traeger AC.
Incidental Rotator Cuff Abnormalities on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ibounig T, Järvinen TLN, Raatikainen S, Härkänen T, Sillanpää N, Bensch F, Haapamäki V, Toivonen P, Björkenheim R, Ryösä A, Kanto K, Lepola V, Joukainen A, Paavola M, Koskinen S, Rämö L, Buchbinder R, Taimela S.
Diagnostic labels used by health professionals for patellofemoral pain: A cross-sectional online survey
Zhang Z, Ferreira GE, Pappas E, Maher CG, Zadro JR.
Rotator Cuff Imaging Abnormalities in Asymptomatic Shoulders: A Systematic Review
Sanders S, Ibounig T, Haas R, Jones M, Rämö L, Docking S, Järvinen T, Taimela S, Hoffmann T, Buchbinder R.
Oxycodone/naloxone versus placebo for acute spinal pain in compliant participants: secondary analysis of a randomised clinical trial
Yang Z, Mp Jones C, Billot L, Devaux A, Shan S, Day RO, Hamilton M, Koes B, Latimer J, Maher CG, McLachlan AJ, McLachlan H, Webb M, Lin CC.
Development of an internationally agreed national minimum dataset for low back pain: a modified Delphi study
McKenzie BJ, Ferreira GE, Haas R, Gorelik A, Maher CG, Buchbinder R; International Low Back Pain Minimum Dataset Delphi Panel.
Management of musculoskeletal conditions with remotely delivered physiotherapy vs face-to-face physiotherapy: process evaluation of REFORM trial using Realist Evaluation and RE-AIM Framework
Chu J, Withers HG, Glinsky JV, Liu H, Jennings MD, Starkey IJ, Palmer B, Parmeter R, Cruwys JJ, Boulos M, Jordan I, Duong M, Duong K, Wong D, Lambert TE, Lucas BR, Taylor D, Maher CG, Sherrington C, Zadro JR, Harvey LA.
Effect of a Walking Plus Education Program on the Duration and Severity of Recurrences of Low Back Pain: A Secondary Exploratory Analysis of the WalkBack Trial
Pocovi NC, Graham PL, Adelaide A, Pisharody G, Lin CC, French SD, Maher CG, van Dongen JM, Latimer J, Merom D, Tiedemann A, Tong SYK, Hancock MJ.
People Strongly Value Physical Therapies for Low Back Pain Over Doing Nothing, Even When Effects Are Very Small: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Longtin C, Salisbury A, Maher CG, Sharma S, Nickel B, Lung T, Ferreira G, Abdel Shaheed C, Furmage AM, Tousignant-Laflamme Y, Traeger AC.
Diagnosis and management of shoulder pain by New Zealand physiotherapists: a national survey
Craig B, Haas R, Buchbinder R, Ribeiro DC.
Productivity Losses Due to Long-Term Back Problems in Working-Age Australians
Docking SI, Ackerman IN, Buchbinder R, Zomer E, Liew D, Ademi Z.
Telerehabilitation for neck pain
Fandim JV, Almeida de Oliveira L, Yamato TP, Kamper SJ, Costa LO, Maher CG, Saragiotto BT.
Prevalence of non-communicable diseases, multimorbidity, and their impact on activity limitations among adults with chronic back pain: a national population-based study in a middle-income country
Ferreira ÉMR, Lemes ÍR, Ribeiro EG, Malta DC, Maher CG, McAuley JH, Jones MD, Hespanhol L, Pinto RZ.
One-page patient fact sheets for low back pain in primary care: A randomized clinical trial.
Christian Longtin, Jeremy R. Chang, Jolyn Hersch, Sweekriti Sharma, Michael C. Ferraro, Rodrigo R. N. Rizzo, Jennifer McBride, Arnold Y. L. Wong, Chris G. Maher, Michelle Guppy, James H. McAuley & Adrian C. Traeger.
SMS text message-delivered pain self-management intervention for patients undergoing total knee replacement surgery: protocol for a RCT 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
Ashton-James C, Gholamrezaei A, Walkley E, McNeilage AG, Liew D, Heldreich C, Buchbinder R, Glare P, Hardidge A.