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Dr
Adrian Traeger
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Postdoctoral Research FellowKey Research Areas
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Adrian Traeger is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, a division of the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He is a physiotherapist who has worked in primary care for over 10 years. He completed his doctorate at NeuRA, UNSW, which focused on how best to reassure patients with low back pain.
Adrian’s postdoctoral research focus is on developing strategies to improve healthcare for low back pain and other musculoskeletal conditions. He is currently investigating ways to reduce unnecessary diagnostic imaging for low back pain. Other interests include overdiagnosis and overtreatment, communicating research evidence to healthcare consumers, and evidence-based practice. Follow Adrian’s work on Google Scholar.
Since finishing his PhD, Adrian has continued to work closely with the McAuley Group. He supervises 3 PhD students at NeuRA (Aidan Cashin, Edel O’Hagan, Rod Rizzo) and is an investigator on the Social Media for Low Back Pain project.
Publications
2025
Clinician experiences in providing reassurance for patients with low back pain in primary care: a qualitative study
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2024
Behavioural ‘nudging’ interventions to reduce low-value care for low back pain in the emergency department (NUDGED): protocol for a 2×2 factorial, before-after, cluster randomised trial
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2024
Can General Practitioner Opioid Prescribing to Compensated Workers with Low Back Pain Be Detected Using Administrative Payments Data? An Exploratory Study
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2024
Competing Narratives: Moving the Field Forward on Spinal Cord Stimulation
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2024
Content and sentiment analysis of gabapentinoid-related tweets: An infodemiology study
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2024
Corporate Influences on Science and Health—the Case of Spinal Cord Stimulation
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2024
Effectiveness of implementation strategies for increasing clinicians’ use of five validated imaging decision rules for musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review
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2024
It's OK to Move! Effect of a Brief Video on Community Confidence in Activity Despite Back Pain: A Randomized Trial
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2024
Perceptions of advice for acute low back pain: A content analysis of qualitative data collected in a randomised experiment
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2024
RECITAL: a non-inferiority randomised control trial evaluating a virtual fracture clinic compared with in-person care for people with simple fractures (study protocol)
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