The Biopsychosocial Model | Assessment and Treatment | Manual Therapy Tutorial, Paul Townley     For many years back pain, for example, was considered via a biomedical model whereby pain is a result of a problem at a specific site or structure.  Therefore, by addressing a specific painful area with a specific technique, the problem should decrease—the idea being that “If I push here, and it hurts, then this structure must be responsible, so if I push it in this direction, it will eventually hurt less”.    This theory has recently become less supported empirically. While aspects of the biomedical model may...

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