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Pain neuroscience education on YouTube.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Innovative treatment formats, technologies, and clinician trainings that improve access to behavioral pain treatment for youth and adults.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- iSelf-Help: a co-designed, culturally appropriate, online pain management programme in Aotearoa.Research involvement and engagement · 2022Article
- Quality Analysis of YouTube Videos Presenting Pelvic Floor Exercises after Prostatectomy Surgery.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Can we just talk our patients out of pain? Should pain neuroscience education be our only tool?The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2021Article
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- Social Circus for People with Disabilities: A Video Analysis through the Lens of the MOHO.Occupational therapy international · 2021Article
- Mobilizing the psychology evidence base for the treatment of pediatric chronic pain: The development, implementation, and impact of the Comfort Ability Program.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2020Article
- Are DISCERN and JAMA Suitable Instruments for Assessing YouTube Videos on Thyroid Cancer? Methodological Concerns.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2020Article
- mHealth for pediatric chronic pain: state of the art and future directions.Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2020Review
- Talking to Children and Families about Chronic Pain: The Importance of Pain Education-An Introduction for Pediatricians and Other Health Care Providers.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Best-Evidence for the Rehabilitation of Chronic Pain Part 1: Pediatric Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
- Popular videos related to low back pain on YouTube™ do not reflect current clinical guidelines: a cross-sectional study.Brazilian journal of physical therapyObservational
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Abstract
objectivesThe Internet in general, and YouTube in particular, is now one of the most popular sources of health-related information. Pain neuroscience education has become a primary tool for managing persistent pain, based in part on the discovery that information about pain can change pain. Our objective was to examine the availability, characteristics, and content of YouTube videos that address the neuroscience of pain.
methodsWe conducted a systematic review of videos on YouTube using the search terms "pain education", "what is pain", and "pain brain" in January 2018. Videos were included if they were in English, were under 10 minutes long, and included information on the neuroscience of pain. Videos were coded for (i) descriptive characteristics (e.g., number of views, duration on YouTube), (ii) source and style, (iii) whether or not they addressed seven pre-determined target concepts of pain neuroscience education (e.g., 'Pain is not an accurate marker of tissue state'), and (iv) how engaging they were.
resultsWe found 106 unique videos that met the inclusion criteria. The videos ranged from having four views to over five million views ( DISCUSSION: YouTube contains a variety of videos that practitioners, patients, and families may view to access pain neuroscience education information. A small portion of these videos addressed one or more target concepts of pain neuroscience education in an engaging manner. It is yet to be determined to what extent patients are able to learn information from these videos, to what extent the videos promote behavior change, and thus to what extent the videos may be useful for clinical practice.
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