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Research demonstrates the need to address cultural and historical factors in cervical injury management, indicating limited change with evidence alone.
Resistance to reforming immobilisation practice is unlikely to yield to evidence translation alone. Effective change requires explicit engagement with the evolutionary, historical, linguistic, and cognitive determinants of cervical injury fear, alongside the evidential case for gentle patient handling.
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