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Dispositionalism in Musculoskeletal Care: Understanding and Integrating Unique Characteristics of the Clinical Encounter to Optimize Patient Care (Hardcover)

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The aim of this book is to discuss contextual factors and the mechanisms at play during the management of musculoskeletal disorders. Knowledge and understanding of these factors can help clinicians to better understand their patients, themselves, and the interactions taking place during patient-clinician exchanges. The awareness of these dispositions can help physicians improve themselves and the care they deliver to patients, leading to a true patient-centered collaborative therapeutic alliance. Physician-patient collaboration is, in turn, associated with better patient adherence and outcomes, and care, delivered in a positive context, produces better outcomes.

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The aim of this book is to discuss contextual factors and the mechanisms at play during the management of musculoskeletal disorders. Knowledge and understanding of these factors can help clinicians to better understand their patients, themselves, and the interactions taking place during patient-clinician exchanges. The awareness of these dispositions can help physicians improve themselves and the care they deliver to patients, leading to a true patient-centered collaborative therapeutic alliance. Physician-patient collaboration is, in turn, associated with better patient adherence and outcomes, and care, delivered in a positive context, produces better outcomes.

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M. Hernandez-Alvarez

Reviewed on 10th Dec 2024

A Great and Practical Guide

Michael Vlanin provides better approaches in addressing musculoskeletal care. We often see new advances in the field, but Vlanin points out that it's not always in the patient's view. It's sometimes just a general view. The author points out in looking at the patient's sleep patterns, if they're depressed, etc. etc. The graphics were helpful in picturing what doctors should look for in their patients. I know what to say so my doctor can understand me better. It's a great guide and I hope this book furthers conversations about looking at medical advances through the patient's viewpoint.

Karyn M

Reviewed on 10th Dec 2024

Easy Read. The Physician's Bible.

Dispositionalism in Musculoskeletal Care by Michael Vianin is a very insightful book that changed how I perceive and understand pain and musculoskeletal problems.
The author provides a patient-based model approach to treating chronic pain while carefully highlighting factors like pain, sleep quality, and depression as essential factors that affect the well-being of the patient. The book provides a clear road map, which the author combines with practical advice that can effectively enhance communication between healthcare professionals and patients.
Dispositionalism in Musculoskeletal Care carefully examines and provides the connection between physical symptoms and mental health. Unlike other works about chronic pain and its remedies, this book looks at ways combining physical and psychological factors in patient care can be an effective remedy. It emphasizes collaborative treatment methods as a better treatment approach.
Vianin also demonstrates the effectiveness of dispositionalism, which is patient-centered. He understands the fact that every patient's case is unique and should be handled as such. He did not just stop there; he provided practical resources that would make it easy for experts to integrate his ideas into their daily practice. I strongly recommend this book.

Danilo García

Reviewed on 10th Dec 2024

Taking Care of Pain and Well Being

“Dispositionalism in Musculoskeletal Care” by Michael Vianin is a book that presents a mind changing take on pain control and musculoskeletal problems. Building up from his several years of experience in the field and the evidence he has created, the author presents a model that puts the patient as the center of it all, not taking away importance from factors like pain, depression and sleep quality. Along with practical advice and a clear roadmap, this guide helps healthcare professionals to communicate in a more assertive way and make the patient feel more in control. This book establishes a relation between physical symptoms and mental well being, with a narration that is comprehensive and accessible to everyone. This is a great guide for professionals; with its holistic care, this book offers hope and better healing processes for patients.

Phil Bolos

Reviewed on 10th Dec 2024

Insightful

Dispositionalism in Musculoskeletal Care: Understanding and Integrating Unique Characteristics of the Clinical Encounter to Optimize Patient Care by Michael Vianin is an insightful book that looks into the different types of pain whether connected to the skeleton or to the nerves and address new strategies which can be used to try and relieve the pain. This book is especially helpful for patients who are suffering from chronic pain that conventional methods of treatment have not been successful with. The author supports his ideas and strategies with a variety of evidence and research which proves that his ideas are worth implementing. Anyone who cares for patients fitting this description or suffers from chronic pain themselves would benefit from this read.

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