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Review
. 2019 Jul;53(14):907-912.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2017-098983. Epub 2018 Jun 20.

Musculoskeletal pain and exercise-challenging existing paradigms and introducing new

Benjamin E Smith  1   2 , Paul Hendrick  3 , Marcus Bateman  1 , Sinead Holden  4   5 , Chris Littlewood  6 , Toby O Smith  7 , Pip Logan  2
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Review

Musculoskeletal pain and exercise-challenging existing paradigms and introducing new

Benjamin E Smith et al. Br J Sports Med. 2019 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: chronic; exercise; exercise rehabilitation; review.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
The role of exercises in the management of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Therapeutic exercise challenges the threat response to pain. Central pain processes, the immune system and affective aspects of pain may respond differently when pain is conceptualised as non-threatening. Adapted from Physiotherapy, 84(1), Gifford, Louis., ‘Pain, the tissues and the nervous system: a conceptual model’, 27–36, Copyright (1998), with permission from Elsevier.
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