Ep 238: Walking back to musculoskeletal health, with Dr Tash Pocovi

Recurrent back pain is common, and debilitating for some people. What if there was a simple, low cost way to prevent these recurring flare ups of back pain?

Dr Tash Pocovi (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) explains the research she's been leading to test a walking + education program for preventing recurrent back pain.

Dr Pocovi's research focuses on improving how low back pain is managed, and especially how it is prevented.

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RESOURCES

Walking, cycling and swimming for nonspecific low back pain systematic review: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2022.10612

WalkBack trial: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38908392/

Effect of WalkBack on duration and severity of recurrences of back pain: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2025.13361