Alessandro Chiarotto

@PhysioAlex

PT, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor @ErasmusMC. Musculoskeletal health, clinical epidemiology, PROs measurement & interpretability. Views my own.

Amsterdam, Netherlands Joined July 2010

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Alessandro Chiarotto @PhysioAlex May 5, 2022

Out today a clinical practice review on non-specific low back pain that @bartkoes and I wrote for the @NEJM.

We synthesized the best available evidence on the management of patients with low #BackPain. Hope it will be a useful resource for clinicians.

bit.ly/3wcsgVs

Alessandro Chiarotto @PhysioAlex Jul 13, 2025

Developing classification criteria for spine osteoarthritis: is it the right time? Read our commentary published in @OACJournal, from a stellar interedisciplinary team! oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

www.oarsijournal.com Developing classification criteria for spine osteoarthritis: Is it the right time? Spinal pain is highly prevalent, disabling, and often inappropriately managed, and yet it is poorly characterized in terms of pathophysiology. According to the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study,...

Alessandro Chiarotto @PhysioAlex May 4, 2025

Interested to know what is the effectiveness of individual patient education in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain? Read our systematic review with meta-analys of RCTs published in @JOSPT. Feel free to reach out to have the full-text! jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

www.jospt.org Individual Education for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: Likely a Clinically Relevant Effect... OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of individual education for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP), compared to no intervention, placebo, noneducational interventions, or other type of...

Alessandro Chiarotto @PhysioAlex Jul 30, 2024

Can we model structural spinal OA on X-rays in primary care?

Our BACE development (+ internal validation) study showed that calibration & clinical utility may be acceptable, but discrimination is not satisfactory (AUC < 0.70).

Open access in @OACJournal: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Alessandro Chiarotto @PhysioAlex Jul 14, 2024

Improvements are needed on @TRIPODStatement adherence for clinical prediction models in spinal pain & #osteoarthritis. First PhD publication of @danielfeller_ft!
jpain.org/article/S1526-…