Rethinking Pain Assessment in Athletes

How do you approach assessing pain when you're working with athletes? What tools do you find most helpful?

Today, sports physiotherapist and researcher, Ciarán Purcell (University of Limerick, Ireland) describes the project he is leading to gather consensus from athletes and sports medicine & rehabilitation clinicians about how best to assess athletes' pain. Listen to the end to learn about how you can get involved in the consensus!

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RESOURCES

IOC consensus on managing pain in elite athletes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28827314/

Framework for assessing upper and lower limb pain in athletes: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2024.12807

Scoping review of tools for assessing pain in athletes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36759138/

To get in touch with Ciarán about the consensus project, email ciaran.purcell@ul.ie