Protection from chronic musculoskeletal pain: a scoping review

Key Points

1. Protective factors were found in psychological, lifestyle, social, and physical domains for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE

Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is one of the most common and expensive healthcare problems globally (1). While chronic pain is now recognized by the World Health Organization as its own diagnosis in the International Classification of Diseases in its latest update, the treatment of chronic pain continues to be a challenge in many cases. Part of this challenge stems from the complexity of chronic pain, combined with many clinicians still being educated with a deficits-based, biomedical perspective on pain.

The aim of this scoping review was to identify factors that could underpin a strengths-based approach for CMP.

Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is one of the most common and expensive healthcare problems globally.

Helping to reveal or harness the strengths that patients bring into the clinic, rather than their deficits, may be what is needed to move the needle in chronic pain care.

METHODS

• This scoping review was conducted following established guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute and the accepted framework described by Arskey and O’Malley (2005) (2). A scoping review aims to assess the volume of literature and key concepts on a particular

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