Students complete a 3,000-word case study on the evidence-based management of a client with chronic pain or a chronic condition with a neurological origin. This Case Study must include physiological and neurological factors. Due to the nature and duration of pain related patients the case study will be largely theoretical and based on a typical presentation.
paper focus on use of massage therapy, vertebral mobilisations and specific exercise therapy to treat chronic lower back pain. Pain should be defined, including its mechanism, and Bayesian theory of pain should be explained and evidenced. Loesers onion model of pain should be used to aid justification of psycho social aspects.