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null Timothy Wideman, PhD

Investigator, RI-MUHC

Surgical and Interventional Sciences Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Associate Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

 

Keywords

Pain education • sensitivity to physical activity • knowledge translation • pain and disability

Research Focus

My research focuses on three themes: Understanding and targeting biopsychosocial risk factors for prolonged pain and disability; improving entry-level pain education for health professionals through large-scale knowledge translation initiatives; and developing person-centred approaches to pain assessment and management that help validate and support people living with pain.

Selected Publications

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  • Wideman TH, Edwards R, Walton D, Martel M, Hudon A, Seminowicz D. The multi-modal assessment model of pain: A novel framework for further integrating the subjective pain experience within research and practice. Clinical journal of pain, 2019; 35 (3): 212-221. DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000670.

  • Wideman TH, Miller J*, Bostick G, Thomas A, Bussières A, Wickens R. The current state of pain education within Canadian physiotherapy programs: a national survey of pain educators. Disability and rehabilitation, 2020; 42 (9): 1332-1338. DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1519044.

  • Wideman TH, Miller J*, Bostick G, Thomas A, Bussières A. Advancing pain education in Canadian physiotherapy programs: Results of a consensus-generating workshop. Physiotherapy Canada, 2018; 70 (1): 24-33. DOI: 10.3138/ptc.2016-57.

  • Wideman TH, Asmundson G, Smeets R, Zautra A, Simmonds M, Sullivan M, Haythornthwaite J, Edwards R. Re-thinking the fear avoidance model: Toward a multi-dimensional framework of pain-related disability. Pain, 2013; 154 (11): 2262-2265. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.06.005.

  • Wideman TH, Finan P, Edwards R, Quartana, P, Buenaver L, Haythornthwaite J, Smith M. Increased sensitivity to physical activity among individuals with knee osteoarthritis: Relation to pain outcomes, psychological factors and responses to quantitative sensory testing. Pain, 2014; 155 (4): 703-711. DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.12.028.