Scoping review maps associations with pain-related disability and function, suggesting strengths-based insights.
This scoping review maps available evidence on psychological, lifestyle, social and physical factors that have shown an association with lower pain-related disability or higher physical function. This offers a contrasting yet complementary perspective to the prevailing focus on deficits in the literature and shines light on factors that could underpin a strengths-based approach for chronic musculoskeletal pain.
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