15 Thought Provoking Open Access Papers (Published in 2022)

Here is a list of open access papers to help bridge the gap between research and the clinical application of massage therapy.

15 Thought Provoking Open Access Papers

The global health burden associated with musculoskeletal conditions continues to increase in both developing and developed countries. This is why my latest project has been to put together a series of resources that will help support the professional growth of massage therapists around the world.

Here is a list of open access papers to help bridge the gap between research and the clinical application of massage therapy.

  1. Bialosky, J. E., Cleland, J. A., Mintken, P., Beneciuk, J. M., & Bishop, M. D. (2022). The healthcare buffet: preferences in the clinical decision-making process for patients with musculoskeletal pain. The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, 30(2), 68–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/10669817.2021.1989754

  2. Cerritelli, F., & Esteves, J. E. (2022). An Enactive-Ecological Model to Guide Patient-Centered Osteopathic Care. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 10(6), 1092. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061092

  3. Diniz, C. R. A. F., & Crestani, A. P. (2022). The times they are a-changin': a proposal on how brain flexibility goes beyond the obvious to include the concepts of "upward" and "downward" to neuroplasticity. Molecular psychiatry, 10.1038/s41380-022-01931-x. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-022-01931-x

  4. Dowell, D., Ragan, K. R., Jones, C. M., Baldwin, G. T., & Chou, R. (2022). CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain - United States, 2022. MMWR. Recommendations and reports: Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports, 71(3), 1–95. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.rr7103a1

  5. Eyles, J. P., Sharma, S., Telles, R. W., Namane, M., Hunter, D. J., & Bowden, J. L. (2022). Implementation of Best-Evidence Osteoarthritis Care: Perspectives on Challenges for, and Opportunities From, Low and Middle-Income Countries. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 2, 826765. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2021.826765

  6. Hartvigsen, J., Kamper, S. J., & French, S. D. (2022). Low-value care in musculoskeletal health care: Is there a way forward?. Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain, 22 Suppl 2(Suppl 2), 65–70. https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.13142

  7. Hutting, N., Caneiro, J. P., Ong'wen, O. M., Miciak, M., & Roberts, L. (2022). Person-centered care for musculoskeletal pain: Putting principles into practice. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 102663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2022.102663

  8. Johnson, M. I., & Woodall, J. (2022). A healthy settings approach to addressing painogenic environments: New perspectives from health promotion. Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 3, 1000170. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2022.1000170

  9. Kerns, R. D., Burgess, D. J., Coleman, B. C., Cook, C. E., Farrokhi, S., Fritz, J. M., Goertz, C., Heapy, A., Lisi, A. J., Rhon, D. I., & Vining, R. (2022). Chronic Pain Self-Management: Psychologically Guided Core Competencies for Providers. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), pnac083. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnac083

  10. Kim, J., Esteves, J. E., Cerritelli, F., & Friston, K. (2022). An Active Inference Account of Touch and Verbal Communication in Therapy. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 828952. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.828952

  11. Kiverstein, J., Kirchhoff, M. D., & Thacker, M. (2022). An Embodied Predictive Processing Theory of Pain Experience. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00616-2

  12. McParlin, Z., Cerritelli, F., Rossettini, G., Friston, K. J., & Esteves, J. E. (2022). Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Biobehavioural Synchrony in Musculoskeletal Care. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 16, 897247. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.897247

  13. Reid, H., Ridout, A. J., Tomaz, S. A., Kelly, P., Jones, N., & Physical Activity Risk Consensus group (2022). Benefits outweigh the risks: a consensus statement on the risks of physical activity for people living with long-term conditions. British journal of sports medicine, 56(8), 427–438. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-104281

  14. Sørvoll, M., Øberg, G. K., & Girolami, G. L. (2022). The Significance of Touch in Pediatric Physiotherapy. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 3, 893551. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.893551

  15. Whittaker, J. L., Culvenor, A. G., Juhl, C. B., Berg, B., Bricca, A., Filbay, S. R., Holm, P., Macri, E., Urhausen, A. P., Ardern, C. L., Bruder, A. M., Bullock, G. S., Ezzat, A. M., Girdwood, M., Haberfield, M., Hughes, M., Ingelsrud, L. H., Khan, K. M., Le, C. Y., Losciale, J. M., … Crossley, K. M. (2022). OPTIKNEE 2022: consensus recommendations to optimise knee health after traumatic knee injury to prevent osteoarthritis. British journal of sports medicine, bjsports-2022-106299. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2022-106299