Disability and rehabilitation
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Case Reports Comparative Study
An integrated physiotherapy/cognitive-behavioural approach to the analysis and treatment of chronic whiplash associated disorders, WAD.
The aim of this paper was to describe a model for an integrated physiotherapy/cognitive-behavioural approach in the analysis and treatment of chronic WAD patients, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of this approach in three experimental single case studies. ⋯ The results showed that functional behavioural analyses can be useful in physiotherapy for structured patient assessment and in planning of treatment. It was also shown that physiotherapy integrated with cognitive behavioural components decreased the patients' pain intensity in problematic daily activities.