Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Programme for Physical Activity and Musculoskeletal Pain
The Programme for Physical Activity and Musculoskeletal Pain conducts research on the relationships between physical activity, functional capacity and musculoskeletal pain. The programme focuses on how guidance in exercise and physical activity can prevent, reduce and manage pain and support health and quality of life in everyday life.
The research is based in both clinical and everyday contexts and examines how professionals can use exercise and physical activity as a central component of rehabilitation and health promotion. The programme works with understandings of pain as a complex phenomenon influenced by physical, psychological and social factors and contributes knowledge that can strengthen professional practice.
The programme is practice-oriented and interdisciplinary and is carried out in collaboration with practice partners, including people living with musculoskeletal pain as well as professionals and relevant decision-makers. Research designs and methods are applied that make it possible to develop interventions through co-creation, as well as methods for examining the feasibility, acceptability and effects of interventions targeting exercise and physical activity in concrete practice contexts.
The programme focuses in particular on:
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physical activity and exercise in relation to musculoskeletal pain
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relationships between functional capacity, pain and everyday life
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rehabilitative and health-promoting interventions
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professional practice in work with pain and movement
The research programme is anchored in VIA’s Research Centre for Prevention and Rehabilitation. The programme is headed by Head of Programme, Senior Associate Professor and PhD Julie S. Jacobsen. Read more about the programme on the website: via.dk/forskning/pleje-og-rehabilitering/fysisk-aktivitet-og-smerter-i-bevaegeapparatet.